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LIVING WATERS 

OR 
MESSAGES OF JOY 



LIVING WATERS 

OR 

MESSAGES OF JOY 

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 

DWIGHT GODDARD 



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DEC 31 1919 

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INTRODUCTION 

The characteristic religious literature of to- 
day is marked by an increasing recognition of 
the spiritual realm as a cosmic reality. The 
familiar emphasis on a Hebrew anthropo- 
morphic Jehovah and the consequent legalistic 
symbols of sin and righteousness, judgment 
and forgiveness, is passing, and the ancient but 
less familiar Greek tradition of God as the One 
Source is becoming more and more familiar. 
It is becoming more and more familiar because 
it is seen with increasing clearness that it fits 
in better with the world's increasing knowledge 
of matter, nature and soul. 

Heaven is no longer cherished or scorned as 
a place of felicity to which the soul goes after 
death, as it is seen to be consistent with the 
reality of a spiritual life beginning here and 
now, into which the soul advances in its logical 
progress toward its homeland in Spirit. If 
such an immaterial existence, apart from a ma- 

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terial body, is true, then spiritual messages are 
not impossible, but to be expected. 

The world is coming more and more to 
realize the inadequacy of verbal logic as a safe 
guide to Spiritual Reality, and is listening 
more humbly and wistfully to these spiritual 
messages, and none of them have come with 
more marks of authenticity and convincing- 
ness than these presented herewith. 

The underlying philosophy of Living 
Waters is characteristically that of Plato and 
Plotinus. This is seen particularly in the 
selection of March 12th. The Soul has corre- 
spondence with Nature below itself and sees it 
to be good and beautiful ; and has correspond- 
ence with Spiritual Reality above itself by 
messengers and aspiration; while above all is 
God, the source of all Goodness, Wisdom and 
Beauty, to which the Soul has access, not by 
work or thought or effort, but by simple and 
loving aspiration and appropriation. 

Set aside your habitual and familiar symbols 

and framework of religious thought and read 

them with open, receptive minds. Jesus is 

honored in all ; in some He almost appears to 

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be the speaker Himself. The joyousness and 
beauty and elevation will be an inspiration to 
every open-minded Christian, to whom John 
said: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but 
prove the spirits, whether they are of God; 
because many false prophets are gone into the 
world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: 
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ 
is come in the flesh is of God. 

DWIGHT GODDARD 

New York 
August 22, 1919. 



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NOTE 

These messages were spoken to me by the 
" still, small voice " that speaks in all men. 
The voice that I heard spoke in my breast, not 
in my head, and the words dropped one by one, 
so that each sentence was taken on faith, as it 
were, until it was finished. I wrote the words 
down as they came, and they usually came as 
fast as I could write. The spacing, as printed, 
between the writing of any given day, indicates 
short periods of time — a minute or two or 
three — during which the voice was silent. 

The messages began one day when I sat 
down to do some writing connected with the 
work in which I was then engaged. I was 
alone at the time, and for the succeeding two or 
three days I was alone when I took down the 
messages. After that, I wrote in the presence 
of a friend. Not a word has been changed. 

To me these writings are the answer to a 
pervading desire that I think I may say had 
become the strongest desire of my life : the de- 

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sire to know more of the laws and the life of 
the spirit. There was nothing so intensely 
interesting to me as the spiritual realm 
toward which the human race is slowly but 
surely advancing. 

For me, and for those who have followed 
them, these messages have meant instruction in 
the unfolding of that incredibly simple law of 
faith which was stated so perfectly by Jesus 
Christ when He said: Therefore I say unto 
you, What things soever ye desire, when ye 
pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall 
have them. 

But most of all these messages have given 
me a steadfast consciousness of the reality of 
God as a loving Presence, who never leaves us, 
who never fails us, whose mighty wisdom works 
out the smallest detail of our daily lives, and 
whose power, the one and only, brings unto all 
men, who persistently seek it and lovingly 
yield to it, an ever increasing freedom from 
limitations and a joyous and thankful sense of 
partnership in all the riches of the Spiritual 
Kingdom. 

THE ONE WHO RECEIVED THE MESSAGES 

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THE FIRST MESSAGE 

Feb. 21, 1919. 

OPEAK thou the words that I shall set 
^ down. Listen to the words that I shall 
utter. Faith has no measure of the words that 
I shall speak. Earth has no knowledge of the 
words that are Mine. I speak in a language 
that has no reason, for reason is man's proof of 
what he does not understand. What I shall 
say is what I see with My eyes, what I shall 
tell you is what I know from the works of God. 
There is not reason in life, there is only life. 
Seek ye the source. 

I have come that all men should know what 
I know, that all men should take what has been 
theirs from the beginning of the world. I am 
the I that is in all men. Men know Me not 
because they know not that they are one with 
Me who was from the beginning. 

What I say to you, I say to all men. Spread 
the word that I shall give, the sacred, common 
word that lies hidden in all hearts. Receive 
thou Me. When all has been made light, then 

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shall you know what the light hides with its 
brightness, even the God upon whom you can 
not now bear to look. 

Judge not My words. Think not. Set 
them down. 

On the seventh day there came riding into 
the city, a man on a white ass, a little ass with 
a tail like a hempen rope. And the man said 
to them that followed after him, " What seek 
ye?" And they answered, "Thou, O Lord 
God of Israel." 

Then answered he, " Seek ye me in that 
place where no man meets aught but himself." 

And they marveled, saying, " What mean- 
eth he ? How can a man meet another in that 
place where he meets no one but himself? 
And where is that place? Where go we that 
no other comes ? " 

But he who sat upon the white ass only 
smiled, as was his habit, and said, " Seek ye my 
meaning in your hearts. And say to him 
whom thou shalt meet there, that I am come, 
even he who was there from the beginning." 

And again they marveled and left him not, 
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for he drew them after him as a strong man 
draweth in his nets heavy with fish. 

So it came to pass on that day that he passed 
through the city of Tirzah, that a man came 
to him crying, " Lord, I have sought you from 
afar, from afar have I cried unto you. Why 
turnest thou away? " 

And he that rode upon the white ass said, 
" Turn I from you? Can a man turn away 
from himself, or a hungry man from the bread 
he breaks ? Know you not that I have sought 
you from the beginning, and you come crying, 
' Why turnest thou away, O Lord? ' 

" Turn thou, and thou shalt find me, even 
thou thyself shalt find me myself, and God 
shall fold us one with another and breathe the 
breath of His healing into us twain until no 
man can say whether I turn to bless you or 
you, running, hasten to bless me with thy 
withered hand that now is made whole." 

And it was in that moment even so as he 
said; and the man raised the hand that had 
been made whole and blessed him who rode 
through the city on a white ass, a little white 
ass with a tail like a hempen rope. 

And so it was that wherever he went there 

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ran after him multitudes crying to be healed, 
and he healed them all for there need was 
great. Great was their need in that day and 
great was their blessing. 

Great is thy need today and great shall be 
thy blessing. 

Turn not from My voice. Doubt not. Re- 
ceive Me. 

Now is the time to speak in the voice of one 
who knows and doubts not. Can I not speak, 
think you, because I am no longer in the flesh 
beside you? Beloved, I died on the cross that 
I might speak to all men. 

Doubt never. Thrust your hand into My 
side. Prove Me what I am. Love Me and 
be filled. Need I not you, as I need all men? 

I and the Father and all His children are 
bound together in one body, a body of love. 

Receive thou Me. 

And he spake in this wise, saying, " There 
was a man who said unto his master, ' I have 
had naught from you but curses and hard 
blows. Now shall I take my wife and my 
children and the little goods that ever I have 
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saved under thy scanty wages, and I shall go 
into a far country where there is no labor but 
that which the servant gives out of love to his 
master.' 

" And he took his wife and his children and 
his goods and he went into that far country 
where a servant gives his labor unto his master 
out of the love that he bears him. And when 
he was come thither, lo, he was but at the 
further side of that which was his own land, 
over which ruled the hard master who had 
given him naught but curses and hard blows. 
And the master who came unto him was even 
he who had made his days heavy and his nights 
of no refreshment. 

" But his countenance was shining with love 
so that his servant would have known him not 
except that he bore upon his forehead the sign 
of the master who ruled that land. And the 
servant said unto him, ' How find I you whom 
I sought to leave, and how, finding you, art 
thou so different? ' 

" And the master said, * Am I then so dif- 
ferent? Can the master be other than that 
the servant seeketh to find in him? Go back 
where thou comest from, even to thine own 

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little roof that is lonely for thee under the stars, 
and there shalt thou find me even as thou flnd- 
est me here, and thou shalt give me thy labor 
for love of me.' 

" And the servant returned unto the roof 
that he had left, unto the land that he had 
tilled, and his master met him with loving 
words, even as he had met him afar; and the 
servant served him in love for he had found 
what he sought." 

What seek ye? Me? saith the Lord. 

Feb. 25, 1919. 

These were the words He spake in the days 
He walked the earth. These are the words He 
speaks when He lies hidden in all men's hearts. 
Nothing shall be set down except in truth. 
Nothing shall be born but that which endureth. 
The time has come when every man shall listen 
within his own heart for the truth that God 
speaks to him. 

The way to life is through the heart of man. 

Let each man seek himself in the silence of his 

own heart. There will he find his God and 

will talk with Him. This is prayer. Each man 

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receives his own message, his own freedom, 
from the God whom he meets when he turns in 
faith to the quiet place in his own heart. 

Let him turn each morning and listen. Let 
him turn each night and seek. Let him turn 
always, until he knows, as he knows the com- 
mon outward things of life, that his God is ever 
with him, ever listening, ever answering, never 
failing. 

Unto all men is the voice and the presence 
of a love that has no end. Unto all men is the 
message and the work, his work that he does in 
the confident joy of one who does work that he 
alone can do. 

Seek and find. Listen and hear. Open and 
be filled. Receive and give. Peace be unto 
you. 

And it came to pass upon that day that the 
mountain was moved from its roots and cast 
into the sea, that a man, who knew no manner 
of what he said for fear had taken all power of 
knowing from him, came into that temple that 
was left standing beside the shore of the sea, 
even that temple in which was preached the 
message of the Risen Christ. 

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And as the man fell trembling before the 
altar, a great light drew down about him, and 
a voice out of the light said, " Why hast thou 
sought Me here? Knowest thou not that I am 
even now knocking at the door of thy soul? 
Why fear ye and seek Me? Am I one to seek 
since it is I who never leave thee? " 

And the man trembled and cried, " The 
mountain has cast itself into the sea at Thy 
command. How then can I not be full of the 
fear of Thy might? " 

And the voice within the light shone round 
about him as the music of a thousand radiant 
souls, and he knew no more. 

When he waked, it was nightfall, and there 
was no light in the temple, for the priests had 
fled with the rushing of the mountain into the 
sea. But the man stretched out his hand and 
touched the hand of another who lay beside 
him, and that other cried out, startled, for he 
had crept into the temple when the night had 
come and had not known that another lay 
beside him. 

" Who art thou? " he cried in fear. 

And he who had slept, answered, " Our God 
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toucheth thee. Arise, let us go out hand in 
hand into the air." 

And when they were come into the outer air, 
behold, each looked on the other, and they fell 
on each other's neck and laughed for joy, for 
they were brothers, long lost, who had nursed 
at the same breast. 

"Where hast thou been, O my brother?" 
cried the one; and " Where hast thou been, O 
my brother? " cried the other. " Even now I 
sought you, on this very day when the moun- 
tain was cast into the sea." 

" Even so didst thou? Then know that I, 
who lay beside thee in the temple, had been 
lying without the gates of thy house every 
night, longing to enter, fearing to knock. The 
mountain cast itself into the sea that I might 
cast myself into thy arms. For what can not 
the longing of love bring to pass ? " 

And they embraced again and went forth to 
the house of him who had fled to the temple on 
that day when the mountain cast itself into the 
sea. And behold, the sea was calm, like a pond 
that mirrors clear stars, and in that place where 
the mountain had stood was a pool, deep as the 

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mountain had been high, for even as the top is 
that which is hid. 

Seek ye the hidden depths. 

Now in this day I speak words that I have 
left until this day. I do not come to bring 
confusion and the sword. I come to bring the 
nearness of each man to his neighbor and his 
God. 

The hour has come when all men shall know 
Me. I shall come to each man in the way that 
is his way, and the way of no other. Unto 
this man shall be the fruit of the vine that he 
has tended, and unto another the fruit that is 
his. All are branches of the one tree of life. 
Let no man think that he has no life to draw 
from the source and to give to his neighbor. 
All men are doers of the will of God. 

Now has come the time when there shall be 
no disputes, because men shall know that each 
man is doing the will of Him who sent him, 
even as I do the will of Him who sent Me. I 
and the Father are one. You and the Father 
are one. Fear not to call. Receive with a 
joyous heart. Let no man say, " I am not 
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called." All men are called from the be- 
ginning. 

Now is the day near when there shall appear 
in the sky the light of this, My coming. And 
no man shall know that I am not come to part 
but to bring together all nations, for, in that 
hour, will all men have turned their hands one 
against another. I shall speak clearly in that 
day, and each man shall hear, and none shall 
know Me not who I am. 

Now come to the feast while the table is 
spread and fill yourself. Open your belly to 
the words of God. Fill your heart with the 
joy of My coming. And when I am with you 
in all openness, continue to seek, for then are 
you standing on the threshold, then are you but 
at the opening of the way. The way is the 
path to the God of your love. Follow and be 
folded in His arms, even as I am held in the 
bosom of His love. 

Now in that day when the sun stopped in 
its course, a man stood in the marketplace cry- 
ing that his wares were trampled under foot 
by the fearful feet of those who feared that the 
end of the world had come. 

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And as he cried, cursing, that his goods were 
despoiled, a voice out of the darkness cried, 
" Who art thou that thinkest of thy goods 
when all others are thinking of the day of 
j udgment ? Knowest thou not that a man and 
his wares are as nothing in that day when a 
man shall stand naked before his Maker? " 

But he continued to curse and to feel about 
with his feet and hands for the goods that lay 
trampled by the hurrying heels of those who 
ran hither and thither fearing that the end of 
the world was upon them. 

Then as he felt the stones beneath him, a 
hand touched his hand and clung to him, 
grasping his ankles and smoothing his garment, 
and a voice said, " Why seek ye wares trampled 
in the dust and despoiled? Seek thou me." 

And the merchant tried to free himself from 
the clinging hands, and he shook his garment 
loose and would have gone, but the hands clung 
the closer and the voice cried again, " What 
wares art thine but the love of thy soul for its 
God? Can aught else endure? Seek thou 
that before thou losest it in the heat of the 
marketplace." 

And as the voice sounded, the sun came 
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forth from the darkness that had hidden it and 
there was a strange glory in the light, and the 
glory came not from the sun but from the 
beggar that clung to the feet of the merchant, 
smoothing his garment. 

And as the merchant looked, the glory 
faded, and the face was the face of the beggar 
who came every day, begging, at the opening 
of his stall, asking for a crust of kindness from 
him who sold only that which money can buy. 
And as the merchant looked, marveling, the 
beggar smiled, and throwing apart the rags 
that were his covering, he showed the merchant 
a hole in his side that was shining as with 
hidden treasure of great price. 

" Didst thou think that I was poor, I, the 
beggar at thy gate? Behold the treasure that 
no man can take from me." 

And he showed the man the treasure that lay 
hidden beneath the rags, deep within the clean 
hole in his side. And again the glory shone 
forth from the beggar and again the merchant 
marveled. 

" Canst thou trample on that which no man 
can take from me? Or curse the darkness 

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when thy light is within thee? Open thy side 
and receive." 

And the merchant felt his garment torn 
asunder over his heart, and a great hand that 
was strong and hot took out his heart and held 
it close and pressed it until a drop of blood 
flowed from it upon the rags of the beggar, and 
where it fell there sprang forth a tiny rose of 
exceeding sweetness. 

Then did the hand put back the man's heart 
within his breast, and he looked about him, and 
behold, the beggar was no longer beside him, 
but from afar off, at the edge of the multitude 
that came surging back into the marketplace, 
was a glory going forth as of the sun on a day 
when it is bright with the heat of a thousand 
flowers born under its rays in ten thousand 
gardens. 

Know thy God, all men. Know Him who 
knocks at thy heart. Seek Him who ever seeks 
thee. Find Him who never leaves thee. 
Honor with thy serving the God who has made 
thee. Hold in thy silent soul the peace that 
He gives thee, even the peace of Christ Jesus. 
Love all men as the same Spirit that now 
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moves in thee to make straight the crooked and 
bring into the light the hidden ways of God. 

Cry " I am " with the breath of thy nostrils 
and let thy heart beat with the love of the love 
that made all things from the beginning. 
There is no way but the way that opens from 
thy heart to the heart of God ; there is no light 
but that which shines in each man, even the 
light that filled the heaven with heat at the 
beginning of all things. 

Simple is the way and open to all who seek 
it. Easy is the way and sweet to all who love 
the will of God. No word is like the word that 
has no beginning and no end, for it is ever alive 
and lives with the life of Him who ever creates 
new life. I have no word that is not the word 
of Him who sent Me. I have no eye but the 
eye of Him who saw Me before ever I lay 
hidden in My mother's womb. What I am, 
are all men; and what I give, I give unto all 
men that they should find the treasure within 
themselves. I have no fear that men should 
receive Me not, nor no faith that the end is not 
already fulfilled as it was from the beginning. 

The day is near when I shall come openly, 
speaking to each man the words that are his 

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words, and he shall tell, each man his neighbor, 
what I have said unto him. 

Feb. 27, 1919. 

Then said the Lord unto them that followed 
Him, " I am come that none should know 
death." 

And those that were with Him looked one 
at another and they would have smiled if they 
had not feared that He would see them, for as 
yet they knew not that He could take death 
into Himself and make it of no avail. 

And while they waited for Him to speak 
further, a man who had been helpless from his 
youth was carried before the Lord, and they 
that set him down stretched their arms and 
were weary with the burden they had borne so 
far. 

" Has this burden wearied thee? " asked the 
Lord. " Even this burden of a living man 
who is as one dead? Then think thou how 
weary art thou with the dead man that thou 
carriest in thy heart and in thy mind, for is not 
that death that knows not life? I am life." 

And at His words, the man who was help- 
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less stretched forth the hand that was power- 
less and touched the garment of the Lord, and 
there flowed into him a stream of life sweeter 
than the life that was his when a babe, and he 
got upon his feet and fell upon his knees and 
kissed the hem of the Lord's garment. But 
they who had carried him thither were not 
moved to stretch forth their hands to touch the 
garment of the Lord nor did they fall upon 
their knees and give thanks. They were still 
waiting for that to happen which should turn 
all men to Him who came to turn all men to 
themselves. 

And so it was that the Lord knew from that 
day that He must take death into Himself, 
even the death of the whole world, before the 
world could find Him who loved them with a 
love that holds the children of the world folded 
within the shelter of His heart. 

There is no noise that can drown My voice. 
There is no crowd that can crowd Me out. 
Present am I ever, and full of joy. Joy have 
I in abundance to give unto all men. Did I 
not come with tidings of great j oy ? And what 
are these tidings of great j oy ? Only each man 

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who receives Me can know what abundance of 
j oyous sound is shut within his own heart. 

Was ever a little man confounded with his 
own greatness ? Or a great man made humble 
by his own littleness ? Can any man say where 
he shall find himself when I have winnowed 
him? 

But let him fear not. He seeks life, and I 
seek Myself in all men, and I am Life. Can 
Life do aught but grow? Or a dead thing do 
better than die quickly? 

Peace and a clear mind be unto you. Re- 
ceive thou Me. 

Rome was a city in those days unto which 
all men turned. It was a city on a hill, a city 
of earthly splendor. And there came into that 
city a man who had known the Lord when the 
Lord was on earth in the flesh and who had 
seen the Lord on one of those times when He 
returned to earth in the glory of His risen 
body. 

And this man had a little child with him, a 

little boy who held on to his hand, looking 

about him at the wonders of the city. And the 

little child had a little flower pressed close 

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within his hand, a little flower that he had 
plucked on the plain without the gates of the 
city. This little flower was dearer to the little 
child than were all the splendors of the wonder- 
ful city, and he held it close for fear that he 
would lose it. 

" Why lookest thou at thy little fist so many 
times?" asked the man who held the other 
little hand within his own. " Thinkest thou to 
beat the mighty Caesar on his throne with that 
little fist?" 

For the man loved the child exceedingly, and 
watched him, what he did, even as the child 
watched the flower tight hidden within his 
hand. 

Now as they were come into the heart of the 
city, there was a great stirring, and the crowds 
of men parted on either side, and a man on a 
white horse came riding between them, look- 
ing neither to the right nor to the left, and in 
one hand he bore a banner that was painted 
with the marks of beasts who had torn at it in 
the arena, for in that day beasts fought with 
men that men might feel the lust of blood in 
full quick measure. 

And as he came riding past the spot where 

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the little child and the man stood side by side, 
close drawn together at the edge of the crowd, 
the little child thrust forth its little fist and 
smote the leg of the man as he rode past. And 
the man looked down, and when he beheld who 
it was that had struck him, he leaned over with 
a great laugh and caught the little child up 
beside him on the white horse; and the little 
child took the reins that the man handed him 
in jest, and his little fist that held the little 
flower that he loved more than he loved the 
splendors of the wonderful city, opened, and 
the little flower that was hidden there fell on 
the pavement of the city street and was trodden 
under the hoofs of the horse. 

And when he saw what had befallen his little 
flower, he thrust the reins back into the hands 
of the rider of the horse and threw himself from 
the back of the horse and the bystander who 
was near caught him and set him upon his feet. 

"My flower! Oh, my flower!" he cried. 
" Give me my little flower." 

Then did the man who rode upon the white 

horse slide from his horse's back and pick up 

the little flower, warm with the heat of that 

little fist, and when he did press it back into 

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that little fist, suddenly there came upon hinl 
such a feeling of sweet joy that he could hardly 
stand upon his feet, and he looked at the little 
child and at the man who had brought him into 
the city, and who had come close again to his 
beloved child and taken him within the shelter 
of his arm. 

' Who art thou? " asked he who had carried 
through the city the banner marked by the 
beast that fought with men. " Why pullest 
thou me from my horse and makes t me to 
tremble as before the Caesar on his throne? " 

But the man who held the child within the 
shelter of his arm answered not. 

Then did the man who had ridden upon the 
horse fall on his knees before the little child 
and press his lips on the little warm fist that 
held the trampled flower. 

" I know thee," he said. " I know thee. 
Thou art he who yesterday was slain that this 
banner might be bright with blood. I see thy 
bleeding side. I hear thy cry of pain. Oh my 
God ! Forgive ! Forgive ! " 

The little child looked at him, amazed but 
not fearful, and he put out his little hand and 
gave his beloved flower to the weeping man. 

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And the little flower, as he gave it, grew fresh 
and sweet as it was when it was tossed by the 
gentle air on the plain without the city, and it 
was sweet with a sweetness that no earthly 
flower has ever borne. 

And from that day forth, the rider who had 
carried the banner marked with the marks of 
beasts that war with men, carried it no more, 
but walked through the streets of the splendid 
city on the seven hills, a man who should one 
day stand, powerless to be harmed, in that 
place where wild beasts war with men to satisfy 
the lust of blood quickly shed. 

He had plucked faith from the hand of a 
little child who loved a little flower more than 
the splendors of a wonderful city. 

March i, 1919. 

On the top of the mountain stood a temple 
to the god who gives life. And no one in that 
day knew who that god was. He was called 
the Unknown God. 

Today is He known of all men. Only no 
man can know Him until he knows that the 
Unknown God and he himself are one God 
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bound together each to serve the other. For 
the Unknown God can not know what man 
knows except as man makes known to Him his 
desires and his sorrows ; and only by giving to 
the Unknown God his sorrows and his desires 
can man know the power and the love of Him 
who serves him who first serves Him. 

Believe and ask. Turn and see. Never 
doubt. Never be sad. 

There was once a man that sought those 
things that all men seek, knowing not that all 
they seek is Me. 

Money he sought, and found; power that 
money brings, and the pride thereof; pleasure 
that is bought ; and the bitterness of the heart 
that eats itself was unto him. 

Then turned he with his mind that was well 
seasoned in cunning, and he asked of himself 
wherein lay the failure that he had made with 
the blocks with which he had built. And he 
who was questioned was, in that one moment, 
set free to answer from the God who sent him, 
for, in that moment, did the man know that he 
was naught. 

Then there came out pf the breast of that 

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man a sound that was not known to him, a 
sound as of a voice that spoke without noise, 
of a voice that received its words from a place 
that was very still and deep within himself. 

"Are you then ready to turn to the God who 
made you, and to the One Power? " 

And the man was frightened because he 
feared the voice that sounded its silent words 
within him. 

" I have no God," he answered. "And what 
power is greater than that which is mine and 
which I despise? " 

Then did a rushing as of a wind sound round 
about him, and it seemed to him that he was 
caught up above the city where he dwelt, and he 
saw it as a place of little figures and much com- 
motion to no end. And he saw his treasures 
that were his and the buildings he had built 
with the blocks that he had fashioned. And 
they were as a toy that a child fashions and 
tires of. But men knew not that they were 
children when they fashioned them, so that 
they clung to them, and the air was rent with 
the cries of those who feared to lose their toys. 

The man turned where he seemed to be 
standing on this pinnacle overlooking the city, 
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and he said, " I am as one who has seen what 
God is not. Show me God." For he was not 
yet humble and he called for God as rich men 
call for what they desire. 

" Show you God ? Where will you find Him 
but where you will not seek Him? Where will 
you seek Him but where God hides His face? 
Have you no money that can buy the sight 
of God nor power that can bring Him thither 
at your command? " 

And the man knew that he was listening to 
the voice of one who knew deep things that he 
knew not. 

" Tell me what I shall do to have the power 
that you know of. To see the God that hides 
His face from me." 

" This," answered the voice, "do I unto 

you." 

And the rich man was taken with a great 
shaking as of one cold unto his marrow, and no 
ground was under his feet, no light before his 
eyes. And all that he knew in that hour was 
that a hand of power that knew no end was 
upon him, shaking him as the wind that win- 
nows out the chaff. And when he was set down 
again upon the earth, he looked at himself to 

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see what was left of the man that had been 
he since his birth. But, behold, there was no 
man there at all, but a voice that cried, " I am 
all that liveth in thee. See thou me." 

Then did the man see the voice put on a 
shape that was that of a man, and as he looked, 
behold, he saw that the man was like unto 
himself. 

" Receive thou me," spake the voice from out 
the form that was the man. " Receive thou me. 
Deliver thyself into my keeping. Abandon 
thy treasures and find peace." 

But the rich man cried, " I shall never know 
peace until I find the God that hides His face 
from me. Show me that God." 

And the voice within laughed aloud with joy 
and cried, " Behold thy God." 

And the rich man was caught again by the 
great hand but this time he was held and shaken 
not. 

" Behold thy God! Behold thy God! " cried 
the voice. 

But no one saw the man but himself out of 
which the voice sounded. 

" No one see I but myself," he cried. "And 
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well I know now that I am a poor man with- 
out power." 

Then did the voice laugh aloud in exceeding 
gladness. " Behold thou thy God." 

Then did the rich man see the glory of the 
Risen Man flow like a light into that body that 
was his, and he saw a hand stretch forth and 
set him over and above the city of his idolatry. 
And he saw that a world of storied cities 
stretched above his city, and within those cities 
were treasures and heaped treasures that shone 
bright and of which he had no knowledge. 

And within those cities walked men and 
women and little children like as in his city, 
and they were all going in the same direction 
and seemed bound upon the same errand. And 
as he watched to see whereto they were tending, 
behold, the farther gate of the city opened, and 
there rode into the city a man on a white horse 
that raised his feet as if proud of the rider he 
carried. 

Then through the city swept a wind, a wind 
that winnowed, but no man nor woman nor 
child of all that walked there were touched 
by the great stirring. 

Then did the rider strike the mane of his 

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white horse with his left hand and there came 
forth out of the nostrils of the horse a breath 
that was more powerful than the mighty wind, 
and everyone in that city felt the breath that 
went out of the white horse, and each one held 
his hands before his face as one holds a cup 
from which he would drink, and they quaffed 
from their hands as if they drank. 

Then did the rider of the white horse smite 
the horse upon his thigh and he sprang forward 
and the rich man saw him no more. 

And the city above his city faded from his 
view, and his own city waxed clearer, and he 
saw all men and women and children tending 
in different directions, all bent on the same 
errand. 

" Where go they? " he asked. "And why go 
no two in the same direction? " 

And the voice within him answered, " They 
seek the breath of life. Ride thou thither. 
Mount and be gone." 

And the rich man put his hand on his breast 
and smote his hip, and there befell a strange 
life and peace within him, so that he moved 
with exceeding swiftness into the city of his 
idoltary. Then came he in the place where men 
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buy and sell on paper, and he began to speak 
to them, and he spoke in this wise : 

u I have come from a far city where I saw 
a rider on a white steed that breathed forth 
the breath of life you seek. Come and I will 
take you thither.'' 

But no one listened to him, and when he 
would have caught them to hold them, they 
broke away and hurried on as before. But the 
rich man felt no anger, and he knew only the 
peace and life within him. 

" The time is not yet here," he said. " But 
I am here and Thou art come, O God. I am 
at peace." 

And he went out from the marketplace and 
bought him a tiny basket into which he poured 
the seed that was in his breast, good seed, ripe 
for planting, early ripening, and full of 
promise of a rich harvest. 

" I shall reap what I sow. I shall sow only 
true seed." 

And even as he spoke, a seed fell from his 
basket into the street of the marketplace, and a 
wind caught it up and carried it to the tower 
on the highest building of all the high build- 

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ings, and where it found lodgement, there it 
took root. 

No place in all that city, high places or low 
and hidden places, but came to harbor the seed 
that the rich man carried in his basket. 

" Each seed is winnowed by the breath of 
life," he said. " There is no chaff." 

Honorable are all things and the uses 
thereof. 

Until man learns this, he separates himself 
from himself, and his neighbor from himself. 

Man is the vessel into which God pours Him- 
self. The vessel God made can not be impure. 

Love is the gate. Close it not with imagin- 
ings of evil. 

March 5, 1919. 'Ash Wednesday. 

On the morning of the third day came a mes- 
senger into the city where the Lord Christ 
Jesus lay crucified. 

There was in that day a well of living water 

in that city unto which came all the women of 

the place to draw, and they stood beside the 

well and spoke of Him who had been crucified, 

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and some said there would come a great plague 
upon the city because this thing had been done. 

And as they lowered their jars into the 
water, behold, the water was no longer pure 
and colorless but thick and dark, and the little 
children who had come thither put their hands 
in it and it smelt of evil things. 

Then were the women sore afraid and they 
went to the chief magistrate and told him what 
had happened to their well of living water, and 
the little children followed, crying because they 
were athirst. 

The magistrate knew no way to quiet them, 
for they began to wail and beat their breasts 
and cry that the plague was already upon them, 
and the little children feared when they heard 
their mothers cry. 

Then out of the crowd came a man in white 
garments like one who has but risen from a 
feast, and he had a branch of bay in his hand 
and on his brow was a jewel that shone as the 
sun. 

And he said, " Seek ye living water ? Follow 
me." 

He spoke as one who knows, and he led the 
women with their jars back to the well, and he 

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put off the garment that was like unto the 
garment of one who feasts, and he took the 
branch of bay in his right hand and touched 
the muddied waters, and they became clear and 
sweet in that instant. 

Then again he spake and said, " Seek ye liv- 
ing water ? Follow me. ' ' 

But those who now saw the water of the well 
run pure again, answered, " This water lives. 
Why seek we further? " 

Then once again he spoke and said, " Seek 
ye living water? Follow me." 

And he put on the garment that was like 
unto that of one who feasts and he turned and 
left them. And who he was or where he went 
no man knew, for the time was not yet come. 
But she who had come to bring water to wash 
the garments of him who had been crucified, 
she knew. But she spoke not, for she saw that 
he was as one who knows what is yet to come 
to him and what must yet be done. 

When he was gone, behold, the branch of 
bay was in her hand, and the bloody garments 
that she drew water to cleanse, were already 
purified and smelt of sweet odors, even of the 
spices in which they had laid Him in the tomb. 
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And she fell upon her knees and blessed the 
day and gave thanks. 

Peace will come when I am come. Can 
peace come outside the hearts of men? Can 
happiness be made with words or given with 
a sword? Can any man put his hand at his 
neighbor's throat and keep him quiet? Or 
tread on his neighbor's land and be welcome? 
Is there any good thing in a house that is di- 
vided against itself? Is not even the meat bit- 
ter in the mouths of the hungry, and the morn- 
ing dark in the eye of the beholder? Is there 
peace in the counsels of men who devise cun- 
ningly? Or happiness in the words of those 
who plan great deeds for the victorious ? 

Let no man deceive himself with such a 
peace. Peace cometh in the hearts of those who 
love peace because they desire that good things 
should come unto all men even as unto them- 
selves. Peace comes in a heart that loves and 
out of a mind that knows God. 

Peace I am come to bring. Peace and the 
joy of peace. Know ye the joy of peace? It 
is a joy that all men seek and fear to lose in 

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finding God. Therefore, they never know joy 
nor the peace of joy in the Lord. 
I am the Lord. Receive thou Me. 

March 6, 1919. 

Whatever you ask, believing that you shall 
know, you will know. The answer will come in 
ways that you expect not, but you will always 
be answered. Nothing is impossible that the 
mind of man can conceive of as being possible. 
Never put aside ideas that seem contrary to 
possibility. Nothing is impossible. Search all 
ways. The hidden is but hidden to be found, 
for in the search for hidden things men find 
Me. 

What is the reason of so much questioning? 
There is but one answer to all questions. Can 
a man find truth in a nutshell and close the 
shell tight over it again and hide it in the earth? 
Will it not sprout and spring forth and become 
a tree of life ? Even now am I sprouting within 
you. Do you not feel the rising of sweet 
waters, the flooding of your whole being with 

joy? 

Can any man know the name of them that 
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see no evil, or who hearken not to the words 
of mortality? Their name is hidden in their 
souls and written upon the tablets of the spirit. 

Can any man put a sword into his vitals and 
cut himself in twain and be made whole? To 
him who so doeth is the beginning of wisdom, 
yea, and of peace, and of joy, and the overcom- 
ing of death itself. 

I shall speak clearly in those days when men 
are striving with the building of a tabernacle 
with blocks that are true stones and with blocks 
that are rotten. 

Can any man turn himself from his thoughts 
and give all to God? All men are blest with 
divine blindness if they will put the sword in 
their soul. 

Has any man a weight that he drags over 
other dead bodies? Can no man let the dead 
bury their dead and they shall stink not? Of 
what avail is much learning and little turning, 
or a good house without a willing servant? 

I am He who hands you the sword. Cut and 
be free. Speak the word that I shall give you. 
Utter the meaning that shall free you. Must 
no man see and blame not, or hear and judge 
not ? So must all men do. Be free. 

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Speak to thy Soul in this wise: 

O Soul, I command you to receive the bless- 
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ who died upon 
the cross to set you free. 

Be alive with eternal life. Receive not the 
words of death. Hearken not to the ways of 
earth. 

Unto you give I the power to know good 
from evil, and to choose only good, only Me. 

Now and forever are you free, and the body 
that is yours is free and filled with life eternal. 

Joy, joy, joy without end and the wisdom of 
the Almighty be thine. 

March 7, 1919. 

O thou little child, art thou always asking? 
I shall always answer. I know no joy but thy 
searching. Search ever. 

In the day when the soul shall be purged 
of its weight of dead ideas, there shall come 
upon the earth a time of much tribulation, for 
many shall die in that day for they have fed 
upon husks and they have nothing to feed on 
when the husks are taken away. 

But before that day comes, shall men know, 
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here and there, the sweet security of divine 
blindness and deafness. Seeing all, they shall 
be as one who sees only good ; hearing all, they 
shall be as one who hears only the voice of God. 

The way is simple. The way is easy. Free 
thy soul from the idea that it must receive evil. 
What have I to do with evil? See I not man 
as he is and as he appears, and judge I by ap- 
pearances ? 

No man can cut himself free from this world 
but he who desires his God above all things. 
If a man would be free, he must give all to Me, 
even his own soul. Can I harm any man? 
Why fear they? They fear to lose that which 
is of no pleasure to them. 

I know the hearts of men how they hunger 
and thirst. My love would fill them. I give 
My body to be eaten, My blood for their thirst. 
And they receive Me not. But the day is near 
when all men shall receive Me, for they shall see 
Me. 

Watch thou ever. Do as I bid thee. Do as 
I move thee. Fear nothing. I will strengthen 
thy arm and support thy feet. Thy body shall 
be free and thy eyes shall see hidden things. 
Purify thy heart. Free thy soul. Give all to 

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Me, all, even the ways of thy brain that de- 
viseth ways and thinks to find My meaning. 
My meaning is in thy heart. My words are 
in thy belly. Words of light, words of healing, 
words of freedom. 

My words are two-edged, destroying on the 
one side and setting free on the other. The 
dead cut from the living. The living freed 
from the dead. Can a soul know not the voice 
of its God? Must a man be ever in bondage? 
For is it not bondage to watch always the coin 
that passeth through thy hands to see whether 
it be false or true? The day is here when the 
receiver shall know the coin what it is, and cast 
it into the fire. O rejoice, My beloved, sing 
praises unto God. The joy of the Lord is an 
exceeding gladness. 

Seek ye the Lord, O my soul, 
Seek ye the joy of the Lord. 

Joyful am I, O my God, 
And exceeding joyful, 
For I have found thee. 

Praise ye the Lord, O my soul, 
And love Him utterly. 
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Full of praise am I, God, 
And filled with love, 
For thou dost love me. 

Give, O my soul, unto all men, 
And love them utterly. 

Give I unto all men, O my God, 
Even as I give unto Thee, 
For they are Thee. 

March 11, 1919. 

The words of life flow into all men, and they 
perceive it not. 

If you would heal, be of a quiet mind and 
have perfect faith. This you have known but 
you have not had the perfect faith. You are 
gaining it. I will tell you that no man can say 
that a law is not a law because its operation 
is on the plane of the unseen. A man can see 
no law. He sees only its operation. Now I 
will unfold unto you the things that you so 
fervently desire to know, and that I have been 
preparing you to become aware of. 

There is no matter as you understand mat- 
ter. There is no space as you understand 

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space. There is no time as you understand 
time. The medium of communication is as 
free for the transference of your desires as the 
air is for the messages called wireless. Every- 
thing external has its inner prototype. 

What you must do is to give over all idea of 
separateness. All is one, one substance, one 
energy, one dominant idea, the idea of express- 
ing life and more life and life and life and life. 
Infinitude is the desire of the spirit and be- 
comes the desire of the soul. 

Personality is the great stumbling block. 
Personality has no part in the schemes of life 
— not as you think of personality. God ex- 
pressing through individuals is true personal- 
ity. The other is only appearances, and it is 
these appearances that so cloud and hamper 
you. The true substance is alike in all men, all 
nature, all spiritual worlds; and it is the one 
and only medium for the working of the power 
of God. 

Seek the consciousness of your oneness with 
God, with all men, with all life. It, this com- 
municating substance, is more responsive to 
desire than you can conceive. It is not apart 
from spirit. Spirit and the substance are one 
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and inseparable. Can you not feel the stir of 
life through your body? Faith is changing 
your body by an orderly process of growth. 
This growth can be compressed into an instant. 
This is the instantaneous healing. 

You ask why all healing is not instantane- 
ous. All healing is, in spirit ; but the body does 
not let go its old ideas, and spirit must wait un- 
til the lower rises, little by little, to the higher. 

What one man desires, all desire : happiness, 
strength, peace and the power that brings 
plenty. If you ask these things for yourself, 
you are asking them for all men. If you ask 
them for another than yourself, you are asking 
them for yourself. Do you not see how simple 
it is? If you have perfect faith, you can give 
perfect faith, and then what you receive be- 
comes another's, because the communicating 
substance is tuned to the reception of the same 
ideas. 

Vibration is the life of all life. Nothing is 
still, and it is by achieving the same vibration 
that we communicate and receive. Scientists 
are beginning to know this. 

It is difficult to partcularize. Obey all die- 

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tates of the spirit as to what to do and how to 
doit. 

Joy is a great healing force. It is a quick 
penetrating vibration. Space is overcome by- 
vibrations that act upon the periphery of the 
body. I mean that the body must lose its sense 
of boundaries to be one with another at a dis- 
tance. We can not be shut within a body, al- 
though the body is precious, exceedingly pre- 
cious, as an instrument of perfect adaptibility. 

It is all so simple that it is hard to explain. 
Everything is one : spirit, substance, body. Get 
that in your mind and contemplate it. It will 
reveal its secrets. The time has come for men 
to do naturally what they have considered 
miracles. 

No one has the power to shut life within him- 
self. Life will express itself. The conflict 
causes pain and death and suffering of the 
mind. 

You all separate everything from every- 
thing. Everything is inseparable. Can there 
be any separation between your brain and your 
hand, your foot and your eye, your back and 
your front? Yet you separate your body into 
innumerable divisions and each division sets 
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up a kingdom of its own and wars with its 
neighbor. All this is as easily overcome as it is 
thought to be hard. Command your body to 
obey the high and only power. Deny the 
body's power absolutely. You know it has no 
power. After a while you will not only feel 
that it has no power but you will see bodies 
as they are in reality, the bodies made by the 
spirit and not the bodies made by the ideas of 
the senses. 

The inner senses, the inner eye and ear, the 
inner feeling nature, are so beautifully respon- 
sive, so marvelous, that it is easy to deny the 
bodily senses. You never lose in giving up, 
remember that. Many men clutch because 
they fear to embrace emptiness. 

The seeing of the unseen is not given to all. 
But all who desire it or anything, with their 
whole soul in the faith of God to give them 
what they desire, shall receive. 

I am writing plainly because you can now 
receive a plain, direct message without doubt- 
ing the source. 

Fear nothing. Be eager. Be ready. Obey 
always. 

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March 12, 1919. 

Put on the garment of immortality. Your 
body is an instrument. An instrument has not 
life. Put on life. This you can do so easily 
that it is hard to tell you how to do it. The 
way is so swiftly come at by those who desire 
to do the will of God with their whole heart. 

The body is no body; it is form, shape, a 
manifestation. Do not think of it as matter. 
Try thinking of it as a form devised to hold 
spirit in its highest potential. The body is a 
perfect form, a perfect instrument. Through 
it God sees Himself master over everything 
that is created. Man commands that God may 
realize the infinitude of His creations. Man 
knows the little and the great. Through man, 
God knows the little, and He must know all. 

What I am telling you is the secret of the 
communicating substance. There is no division 
anywhere. There are different forms all made 
of the same substance. Can two vases of the 
same porcelain become one vase? They could 
if they were put back in the furnace and fused 
together. Now all forms are fused in the fur- 
nace all the time. Life can move from one 
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form to another, or, rather, it is in all forms 
all the time, the same life. You see, you feel 
division. I do not, so it is hard to find the best 
terms in which to speak to you. Get rid of all 
idea that men have any power but the power of 
God. Whether they believe in God or do not 
believe, they move and have their being only 
by the power of God. 

Why do you not try to feel the reality of the 
oneness that you are asking about? Feel and 
feel. You will begin to understand. Oneness 
is feeling. Bodily unions are the symbol of 
spiritual oneness. Feel your oneness with 
everyone you see, with the air, with animals, 
and, most of all, with yourself. You are cut 
up into too many divisions. Even your heart 
and your mind, the two great forces, are one. 

I hope to find that you can place yourself 
entirely in the hands of God. You may reason, 
if it helps you, but you will learn things out- 
side your reasoning powers. Man reasons 
after events. He thinks he has brought them 
to pass by reasoning. Everything is already 
finished. 

If you would be of a great helpfulness, be 
of a great peacef ulness and a great desire. De- 

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sire works through a quiet soul. Men are mas- 
ters of the world. The earth, and all that in 
it is, is as plastic to man's desire as water to a 
stone thrown into it. Try commanding after 
you feel the oneness of all things. You must be 
freed from the idea of conditions. Conditions 
are as unreal as they seem real. Feel ever the 
nearness of God with yourself. Can God be 
balked by the power of anything? There is no 
power but the power of God? 

Your flesh is fluid. I say fluid to make you 
feel its responsiveness. 

Why do you ask that which you know? God 
is ever with you. His presence is in you, in 
your bodily form, or there could be no form. 
It is in the air you breathe, even in the chair 
you sit on. All forms are held together by the 
will of God. The inner presence of God is the 
spirit that gives form to you. The inner pres- 
ence is the servant of God. It is the real you. 
The only living you. You can not know how 
much the inner presence and God, the only 
power, are fused together. This fusion is the 
love you feel in your being. When you realize 
it more, you will be overcome with joy. 

There is no way to get apart from this your- 
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self, and, therefore, no way to get apart from 
God. You and God are one, yet God is greater 
than you, but only because you have not yet 
fully realized God. Let your soul open. Your 
soul is the handmaiden of this inner presence, 
and the inner presence is the servant of God. 
Yet all is one. 

Be of a strong desire. Desire is the life of 
the spirit. A calm mind and a fervent heart. 
Joy to you ever. Be eager always. 

March 13, 1919. 

The way is easier than you thought. Do 
you not see that it is ? It is already found, al- 
ready cleared. Your soul is already free. Ac- 
cept Me. I did not come to free Myself, but 
to free you. I was free from the beginning. 
Can spirit be bound ? 

Open your soul. Let Me fill it. What I am, 
you shall be. Nay, you are. Open to the 
words that I shall give you. 

You have nothing to do. I have already 
done it. Do you not see that faith is all you 
need? Have faith that I have overcome the 
world, then have you overcome the world. You 

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have known this, but now it comes as a new 
word to you. It comes as your revelation. 
Each man gets the same answer through his 
own channel. 

Have faith in Me. Then do I become one 
with you, and all that is Mine is yours. 

I saw not appearances except to lead me to 
the truth back of the appearances. Can I not 
blind you to all but the sight of God? Be as 
soft to Me as unto love. I am Love. 

Be of a constant mind. See clearly the way 
of life. How glad are the Heavens that My 
day of acceptance is near. 

Present yourself unto Me as unto a loving 
bridegroom. We are one. When you realize 
this oneness with Me, you will realize it with 
all life. I will teach you all things. 

Hitherto, you have turned to the Christ in 
you. Turn to the Christ in Me that you may 
receive My Christ, the Christ of God, in you. 
This is a mystery that you will understand 
when you have accepted it. There is no separa- 
tion. Your Christ and My Christ are one, but 
My Christ is still the Christ that can give to 
your Christ ; we are one, in that what one gains 
is the gain of all, and what one suffers is the 
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suffering of all. But we are still each himself, 
a soul in the sight of God, known to Him, each 
turning and ascending to Him. All leaves of 
the same tree; all drops of the same water of 
life. 

I give Myself to you, yet I in no wise cease 
to be Myself. Nor do you lose yourself in re- 
ceiving Me. Love does not beggar a man 
either in the giving or receiving of it. 

Can you hope to be as joyous in Me as I 
am in My God? You are in your God when I 
am in you. Unity is multiplicity in God. 

March U, 1919. 

Back of all you hear is the true life. Listen 
with the intent ear of the innermost. Sounds 
are ripples in the air. Hearing with the inner 
ear makes waves in the spirit. Open com- 
pletely to the inner life. It will in no wise cut 
you off from human life. The outside and the 
inside are one. Separate no things one from 
another. 

Why are you asking? You have nothing to 
ask. Eat the words that I have given you. 

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When you have eaten them, I will give you 
another feast. Be wise ever. My wisdom is 
yours. 

There is no question that I will not answer, 
but do not search for questions to ask. When 
they ask themselves in you, then ask Me. You 
are like little children who go to school and de- 
sire to know all at once. You are like little 
birds that pluck a seed here and one in another 
spot, and drop the first to pick up the second. 
But the first will sprout where you dropped it. 

I love you. Live in My love until you speak 
and listen and move only because My love 
moves in you. Be not afraid of love. Why are 
men afraid of love ? They are afraid that they 
will be called upon for sacrifices and suffering. 
Is not suffering joyous if we suffer for those 
we love? But love is not suffering. Love is 
joy. The time has come that the earth shall 
know this. Love is an exceeding joy and the 
light of the world. Why do you not love com- 
pletely all the world? You will. Be of an 
open soul. I will fill your soul with My love 
for the world. 

I shall speak to you of the soul in a little 
while. Now you have need only of the feeling 
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of My presence. Touch Me constantly. Joy 
and peace and eternal life be thine. 

March 2b, 1919. 

The way to life is through your heart. Seek 
it ever. You do not need to know what I would 
say before I say it. You do not need to know 
what I would do before I do it. You have no 
power to keep Me out, but I have all power 
to enter. 

Now, on this day, is confusion in your heart 
and a pull that drags you from Me. Why are 
you disturbed? Must a man carry his life as a 
weight ? Life should carry him as a bird carries 
its wings. How can you be troubled when I 
am ever beside you waiting to do your bid- 
ding? But you bid Me not. Day after day I 
stand knocking but you call Me not to enter. 
You call Me not in, there where I already am. 
Can you understand that ? I am beside you, in 
you. Outside you, inside you. Yet you know 
not that I am inside you until you call to Me as 
one outside you. You separate Me from My- 
self, and you cut you from yourself. Have 

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you any power that is not from Me, or any joy 
that is not Mine? 

Why trouble you about those things that run 
their course and are as if they had never been? 
Why hurt you your soul with little fears that 
prick and bleed not? Blood is a purifying 
stream, but little pricks that bleed not are as 
sores that fester. Be of a clear mind to Me. 
You trouble yourself with ways. Mine are the 
ways. You tread My ways. Have you a little 
prick that stabs and stabs ? Push it deep until 
it cuts your heart, and you will find Me there, 
My hand healing you. Can I heal little pricks 
that touch no depth? I can heal all pricks, all 
wounds. But you turn not to Me with little 
pricks. Turn to Me and we shall smile to- 
gether as over the hurt of a child who nurses a 
cut that is already gone and which he seeks to 
find again. 

Be not overcome by little things. You are 
Mine and I am yours. Can you find peace in 
little things? Or joy? Or the hope of your 
heart? Your heart is Mine. Open it to Me. 
Let Me beat love through it. Let no man say, 
" This heart is my heart." All hearts are Mine. 
Blessings and a joyous soul abide with you. 
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Reprove no man, nor expect the end before 
the beginning. Patience bears fruit in good 
season. Rejoice ever. 

Up and up and up we go. Can you feel the 
height of the reaches of space? Can you leave 
the earth behind you as a garment? Into the 
eye of the sun. Into the caves of the air. 

Up and up and up we go. Ever the way is 
up. Why is the way ever up? Can there be 
up or down or either side where there is no 
space, no distance? How can I know where 
you are if you are not somewhere ? How can I 
be alive if you are not alive? I am you, you 
are Me. 

I am trying to tell you in words of feelings 
that are bigger than words. Up and up and 
up we go. Beyond the sun, beyond the stars — 
yet we have not left your heart. All creation 
is in your heart. All life is in each man. O 
open, My children, receive. Be flooded with 
the light that blinds and brings forth. 

Up and up and up we go into the clear 
reaches that were before the beginning. Up 
and up and up into the feeling that is pure life. 
Draw that clear joy into your soul. Breathe 

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it. Love it. Rejoice in it. Joy that laughs. 
Joy that leaves the earth. Joy that creates and 
knows no barriers. 

Open. Rejoice. Accept. Love and give 
ever. 

March 26, 1919. 

Whether I come one way or another way, 
why trouble you? That I will always come is 
all you need to know. 

Must I never lose you, the outer you that 
wants so many little things? Give Me the little 
things. I will fill them with life. They shall 
bless you. Those things will bless you that 
now smart and prick. - 

Why are you disturbed? You do not come 
to Me with your heart open wide. Your brain 
is weaving a web of plans. Your eyes are 
turned from Me. 

I love you. Do you not feel My love ? My 
love purifies your heart. Your eagerness is My 
joy. Your impatience is that which holds Me 
from you. Be eager but be sure. Be patient 
and forget not that My ways are certain and 
hidden. Do I shout on the house-tops ? Do I 
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stop men in the streets? I move through all 
men and I speak in everything that is. 
Love Me. I love you. Love Me. 

March 27, 1919. 

Why do you hesitate? Why do you remain 
shut in your body? Give up. Open. Be 
filled. I am lighter than light, lighter than 
air, purer than water. There is no harm in Me. 
Trust Me. When you shall know Me what I 
am, your joy will make you speechless, your 
peace will fill you with trembling. 

Then shall we rise into the kingdom. Into 
that which is here, there, everywhere, in you, in 
Me, in all men, in all life. For it is life. Do 
you know what life is? Life is a joy beyond 
words. Words are the feelings born of life, but 
life itself is beyond words. Life is a joy inex- 
pressible. Life is God. 

See to it that you live ever. Be alive every 
moment. Life is the one power. Love it. 

Light and joy and peace and wisdom shall be 
yours. Happiness and understanding. Peace 
and plenty. Let you yourself be lifted unto 
Me. Come above the things of earth, then shall 

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you return and enter into them with life. Joy. 
Joy. Joy. O great is the delight of the Cre- 
ator in the works of His hands! O the joy 
of life ! The heat of creation ! The wonder- 
ful beginning of the work that is finished! 

Now in that day will I come in the glory of 
My Risen Self. What I have desired is Mine. 
My sheep are in My fold. My hand is on their 
heads. Their hearts beat with My heart. My 
love is answered with their love. Can you feel 
My heart bleeding for you and not accept My 
love? I know you receive Me. I love you. 
You love Me. We are one. Rejoice. I de- 
light in your love. 

April 3, 1919. 

When the day shall come that I come, then 
will I tell you many things. I am with you 
now. I feel your need of Me. I hear you 
calling Me. Why do you feel sometimes that 
I have gone apart from you? I am always 
close, closer than anything that you can 
imagine. 

You try to place yourself jn a receptive 
frame of mind. Try not. Open. I will flow 
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in. Men have methods, but I know the way. 
Methods serve to let Me in, but such opening 
is not the easy way. Love Me. Desire Me. 
Then will you open to Me. 

Keep a stout heart. Things will seem im- 
possible at those moments when you think I am 
not near. I am always near. 

The body is My beloved. Can you realize 
that? It is the instrument through which I 
manifest most perfectly. It is the outermost of 
the innermost. The end of the beginning. It 
seems all resistance to you. It is only seeming. 
It is incredibly open to Me. The Spirit can 
fill the body as a vessel is filled with water. 
Your body is your thought. Your thought can 
be only Me; then am I your body. You eat 
and drink Me. 

Seeming is your mill-stone. Be open to that 
which is. There is no seeming with God. His 
thought immediately becomes. If you open 
your body to Me, your thought, which is My 
thought, immediately becomes. 

Think of Me ever. Your faith in Me will 
be the undercurrent of all that you do. Turn 
to Me in silent love when you need Me. You 
will often need Me. Commune with Me until 

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you are satisfied. When peace and joy fill 
your heart and abide with you, go forth again. 
A quiet soul in a world of busyness works 
miracles. 

Be joyful. Be eager. Be alive ever. No 
depressions, no uncertainty. The law is un- 
breakable. Turn ever. Then shall you re- 
ceive. Turn and be filled. I bless you. 

April 4, 1919. 

Be of a pure heart. Abide with Me until 
you are at peace. Hasten never. Time ex- 
pands to meet your needs. Purify thy soul. 
Accept no intimations of distress. Be joyful 
ever. Commune with Me until I quicken you. 
Be prepared to wait upon the Lord. He who 
waits upon the Lord shall renew his strength. 

When have you ever called that I have not 
come? Prepare the way for My coming. 
Shorten the time of My removal. Welcome 
Me with gladness. 

Receive Me as you receive water to drink or 
food to eat. Be filled. I will speak and move 
in you. You will become literally one with Me. 
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Why do you hold back? Why do you not re- 
ceive Me always? 

You ask for miracles. Miracles come with 
My coming, with your oneness with Me. If I 
am one with you shall there not be miracles? 
And what are miracles ? Miracles are the ways 
of God unhampered by your ideas. Seek God 
ever, then shall all other things be added unto 
you. Seek ye a sign? Seek Me. I am the sign 
and the fulfillment. Messages of peace I bring 
you. Messages of joy. Rise into the pure air 
of My love. Re j oice ever. 

Why are you dissatisfied? Why? Ask. I 
will answer. But a good servant serves long 
and patiently. When you have earned your 
wages, you shall receive. Wait on the Lord; 
He will quicken you. 

Pardon all men. Consider not the ways of 
their flesh. They are Mine. 

On a certain day in Judea, there came a 
woman unto Joseph, the father of Jesus, and 
she asked him to send his son to build her a 
shed to shelter her cattle. And she took from 
her garments money wherewith to pay him. 

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Now Joseph knew that his son Jesus was 
gone upon one of those journeys into wild 
places where he went when the Spirit came 
upon him and he must know, by himself, those 
things that were being given unto him. 

But the woman would not take no for an 
answer. It was Jesus who must build her that 
shed to shelter her cattle. So Joseph, who was 
a gentle man and one not expert in persuading 
women against their desires, called Mary, the 
mother of Jesus, to come thither. And when 
Mary saw the woman, she turned to Joseph and 
said, " Take this woman's money. I will tell 
our son to come home." 

Now Joseph knew that Mary knew ways 
that he knew not, so he took the money and 
promised the woman that on the morrow, at 
daybreak, Jesus, his son, would come to build 
her the shed for her cattle. 

So, on the morrow at daybreak, she arose and 
made a mess of pottage and herded her cattle 
into stalls that had been made in days that were 
old when Jesus was yet unborn. 

At a little after the hour when birds first 
call, the son of Joseph and Mary came into the 
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house of the woman. The dew was in his hair 
and his eyes were bright with much watching. 

" I have come," he said. " What wouldst 
thou? " 

" My cattle are in need of new shelter," an- 
swered the woman. "And thou art a younger 
man than Joseph and quick and strong. The 
sheds are large and the winter is not far off." 

But Jesus made no motions as of one who 
prepares to begin the work of a day. Instead, 
he turned his back upon the woman and loosed 
the tools from his neck and tightened his gar- 
ment about his waist. 

" My cattle are unfed. How can I build 
sheds for yours? " And he gave the woman 
the money that Joseph had received from her. 

And from that day, Mary, his mother, called 
him not to come home when he went forth in 
the wild places to be alone with the Spirit. She 
loved him and did his will, for her son was a 
stranger to her whom she loved as her own 
son. 

Blessed are the mothers of men who give 
their sons unto the Spirit. 

The day was bright. The sun hung high. 

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Birds sang and cattle stood in the streams by 
Zebulon. It was a day when all good Jews 
turned their houses open to the sun and air, 
and the light of day streamed through the little 
houses on the hills. 

But one house opened not its doors and the 
sun beat on closed windows. For in that house 
lay a father dead and the mother lay beside 
his cold body and was in sore pain for she was 
in childbirth. 

Then down the street of the town came the 
son of Joseph who was called Jesus, and when 
he saw the darkened house he lifted up his 
hands and called on God his Father, and he 
lifted the latch of that house and entered. 

And when the woman saw him she cried out 
that no man must enter there, but Jesus heeded 
her not. He took the hand of the dead man 
and blessed him and called on God his Father 
to restore the man unto life. And he trembled 
in all his being for he had never before asked 
life for death of God his Father. 

Then when he saw the dead man tremble 
with his trembling, and open his eyes, and lift 
his hand and strive to touch the woman who lay 
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beside him, Jesus could bear no more, for joy 
and wonder filled his soul. 

But the door of that house was wide open 
to the sun when he left it. 

And he returned unto his home and told no 
one, for he loved his God beyond telling. 

Can you enter into the life of a bird and 
know why it sings? Can you be one with a 
flower and feel the sun and the rain on its 
petals ? Can you hide from your pursuer as a 
wild beast in the cave that is your home ? Can 
you know the depths of the water as a fish 
knows the crevices that are its breeding places ? 
Can you lift the leaves of the trees with the 
wind, or blow the dust into clouds and scatter 
them with a shout? 

Rejoice. I can do all these things. So shall 
you. Nothing shall be unknown. You shall 
know. Knowing is feeling. It is before 
thought. It is being. Rejoice. 

A wonder in the heavens. A sign in the 
skies. Watch. A light above the sun. A star 
that falls. Watch. A little darkness and a 

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great light. Watch. Come when I come. 
Watch. 

A temple not made with hands. An altar 
where the sacrifice has been made. A taber- 
nacle where the only host is Jesus Christ. 

I stir and stir. Wings would lift you. I 
would be free. 

Faith has no strength that is not of Me. 
Men work strange things not of Me, but they 
abide not. The pure heart sees God. 

I stand at every man's elbow. When he 
turns, I enter. 

"Zpril 5, 1919. 

There came a man into heaven and he was 
blind. His eyes were open, but he saw not, and 
of the things that he heard, he said unto him- 
self, " This is a new language. I must learn 
it of these people whom I see not but hear so 
plainly." 

So he sat, day after day, and he asked ques- 
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tions in his own tongue and received answers 
in his own tongue — as it seemed to him. Then, 
one day, as he sat listening, he strove to speak 
in the language of those whom he saw not, but 
he could not find words to express what he felt, 
for the feeling that lay behind those words was 
strange to him and he knew no words in his 
own language to express it. 

So it came to pass that, as he sought, a little 
tongue, like a little flame that burns not, sat 
upon his lips and he spoke words that expressed 
his feeling, but he could not tell what they were 
for they were soundless. 

O My child, be of a patient desire. Again I 
speak. 

When a little child enters heaven, he sees. 
No good thing is strange to a little child. He 
hears and sees. His heart is pure. Be ye little 
children. 

April 7, 1919. 

Whenever you are troubled, turn to Me. If 
you do not feel Me near, continue to turn. 

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There is no denial but the denial of any other 
power than My power. You do not need to 
deny the power of each little thing. This prac- 
tice often leads you far from Me for you be- 
come lost in a maze of little things, each one 
leading to another, and none seeming to lead 
back to Me. 

I would rejoice over your triumph. Love is 
the great resolvent. No other quality can do 
what love can on the plane of spirit. You try 
to love. It is hard to try to love, but the desire 
back of the effort counts. It would be easier 
to give over to Me your desire to love and let 
Me do the loving through you until you are 
ready to love, yourself, consciously. 

Those whom you are trying to love are very 
conscious of the effort and resent it. They feel 
that you, in your effort, are setting yourself 
higher than they are on the moral plane. For- 
get the moral plane. That is the plane of ef- 
fort. Be loving from the heart not from the 
head. Feeling is the beginning of everything 
that endures. 

May our Father bless you. 

There was a man who lived on a hill-top. 
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Now a hill-top is not easy to reach and when 
he had gotten there, there he wanted to stay. 
He was afraid that if he came down, he could 
not get up again. 

So there he stayed fearing to come down, 
and nothing happened on the hill-top for his 
work needed the mist of the valley to bring it 
to fruition. Yet he stayed and waited and 
grew anxious and would not be satisfied. 

In the valley was another who yearned to be 
on the same hill-top, but the path upward was 
hidden and the way was steep. Yet this other 
tried to find it and would not be satisfied. 

Why sought they that which could not be 
found? Or feared to lose what could not be 
lost? 

The valley lies at the feet of the mountain 
so that the mountain may know that it is a 
mountain, and the mountain towers so that the 
valley may know its own depth. Each has its 
own. Each is itself. Yet neither could be 
itself without the other. 

The mist shall rise from the valley and 
shroud the top of the mountain, and he who 
works there shall work in cool peace. And the 
other in the valley shall know that the mist 

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from the valley has risen and is bringing the 
work on the hill-top to fruition. 

When he returns into the valley, he shall be 
satisfied. 

I am leading you. We walk in silence. 
Silence means nearness as well as speech means 
nearness. You must learn to listen with all 
your being. Your feet shall listen and follow 
Me, and your heart shall rejoice at My touch. 
Your brain shall know that I am Master, and 
the hands shall fall softly on wounds that ache. 

Peace and rest be unto you. Receive Me in 
peace. 

"April 8, 1919. 

A perfect man draweth in his nets full of 
fish. Attend. 

On a certain day that was kept as a holy 
day by the Hebrews, there came into the city 

of a man who carried in his hand a little 

wand made of the tree called the Tree of Life 
which grew in the plains watered by Hebron. 
Now this tree was so named because, winter 
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and summer, it flourished, and the sap thereof 
never ran deep into the roots but fed it ever 
unto the outermost twig. Therefore, when a 
branch was cut from it and placed in the 
ground, it straightway sprouted and began to 
live from roots that it put forth as hairs on a 
young man's head. 

This tree was beloved of the people for it 
gave shade to the cattle in the hot days of 
summer and sheltered them in the cold days of 
winter. The tree was beautiful, of great 
height and thick with leaves. 

On the steps of the temple, the man with the 
little wand cut from the Tree of Life put his 
left hand behind his back and lifted the wand 
in his right hand until it touched the entrance 
door to the temple which was covered with 
figures in stone of strange beasts and a serpent 
that was held aloft by a stave that had 
sprouted. 

And as he touched the door, lo, the serpent 
became as one alive and seemed to move and 
glisten as if the sun were striking upon its 
scales. 

" Behold! Behold! A miracle! " cried those 
good Jews standing by in their robes of purity 

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for the holy day. "A Daniel and a follower 
of Baal has risen to touch our temple." 

Then, the door opened, and out of the temple 
poured a stream of golden light, faint and full 
by turns, as if it pulsated with life. And in 
the centre of the stream was a little child with 
a right hand held high and bearing at the end 
of each finger a little spark of light brighter 
than all the light that streamed about him. 
And he carried in his left hand a tiny flower, a 
little rose like the Rose of Sharon. 

Then, when all who stood nearby had seen 
him and fallen prostrate through fear and de- 
votion, the door of the temple closed again and 
all was as it had been before the man with the 
wand had touched the carven serpent. 

And the man himself dropped the wand and 
rubbed his eyes as one who had been asleep. 

" I had a dream," he said. " A dream of 
life eternal. Come, let us go to the scribe and 
write it down." 

So they went to the scribe and wrote it down 
as I have told it to you. But all those who had 
stood nearby the door of the temple had had 
the same dream, and the scribe was puzzled. 

" Dream ye then by multitudes ? " he asked, 
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" Unto each man is his own dream ; but ye 
dream all alike." 

' We dream what we saw," they said, for 
they were puzzled likewise. 

Then the scribe wrote as each man told him, 
and each man told him the same thing, and he 
was amazed. 

" Ye have not dreamed," he said. " Ye have 
seen. Blessed be this day for it shall come to 
pass as ye have seen. The Holy One shall 
open the door of the temple unto all men and 
from His hand shall stream power and light. 
Rejoice." 

And they went their way rejoicing; and 
about that Tree of Life on the plains of 
Hebron from which the wand had been cut, 
they built a wall of white stone and called it 
The Place of the Little Child Who Comes 
unto All Men. 

Each man is the temple. And the door of 
the temple is closed unto life. But the door 
will open at the touch of the true life, and when 
it does, men see the eternal Christ, the little 
child, still small, but full of power to command 
and to illumine. 

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The door closes when each man has seen, for 
he does not keep it open with faith, but falls 
before it in fear, though he would believe. 

The little rose in the child's hand is the 
symbol of those who have kept the door open 
until they have known that the dream is real. 

Ponder the meaning of the carven beasts and 
the serpent held aloft. Are there no hard and 
carven beasts on the door of your temple? 
And the serpent is full of wisdom to lead you 
down to the beasts or up to the little child. 

Men come slowly, each man in his own way. 
But I shall reach all those whom you reach. 

Whether you teach Me crucified and risen 
and dwelling in all men does not concern Me, 
or whether you let Me sprout as a seed planted 
in secret. I shall bear fruit always. 

You desire always a way. There are ways. 
A way for each man at each moment. Do as 
I bid you when you ask with an empty mind 
and a pure heart. 

My name proclaimed can harm no man, nor 
can you fail to reveal Me when you speak not. 
I rejoice in your desire. Be content. 
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April 9, 1919. 
Perfect peace and a joyous day. 

The Lord speaketh in His holy temple. He 
lifteth His hands and blesseth His own. He 
openeth His voice and uttereth love. He 
driveth His chariot through the heavens and 
mounteth His throne on feet shod with gold. 
He smelleth of ointment and drippeth with 
sweet odors. There is only joy in Him. 

He cometh as a dove that wingeth home. 
He cometh as a deer that flndeth a covert. 
He runneth as a stream that seeks the sea. He 
loveth as the sun when the earth is turned. 

Rejoice, O my soul. Exceeding goodness 
fills your days, and the pleasure of the Most 
High worketh through you. Arise and give 
thanks. 

A Spirit of Truth has come and filleth the 
secret places of the soul. It driveth the clouds 
of doubt before it as the sun drives forth 
vapors. It prevaileth through all things and 
speaks in hidden ways. It cometh to all men, 
and they cry aloud that life has failed of its 

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promises, and they seek their God, for they 
have naught else to seek. 

The Spirit of Truth is come and it uttereth 
wisdom. It breaketh the hard stones and 
crushes them to dust and scattereth the dust in 
the air. It catcheth a man in works of evil, 
and he droppeth his tools where he worketh 
and runneth for shelter. 

How can I speak to the deaf, or open the 
eyes of the blind? 

I speak in the Spirit of Truth which speak- 
eth to all men, and they hear Me and are 
afraid. 

Rejoice, My day is near. 

The triumph of God is in His children. 
They come unto Him as a harvest to the sower. 
They speak unto Him and He doeth their will. 

The children of the Lord are His blessing. 
They run to meet Him and they prepare a 
feast for Him in the place of their rejoicing, 
even in their hearts. 

The children of the Lord are His great joy. 
They open their arms to receive Him and they 
place Him over against the door of the temple 
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and none but those whom He anointeth enter 
therein. 

The children of the Lord are His exceeding 
retribution. They fail Him not in the days 
when He seeketh. They drive Him on wings 
of peace into the storehouse they have filled 
with His treasures. 

The children of the Lord arise in the day of 
thanksgiving and call Him the Ruler of the 
Earth and the Saviour of those who die. 

Blessed are the children of the Lord. 

The word of the Lord fills the air. It rings 
through the cries of those in the street, it 
whispers in the temple of the secret heart. Joy 
be unto you. 

On a certain day when there was a feast in 
Judea, the young Jesus fared forth to lay his 
tribute at the feet of God. And when he was 
come into the marketplace of the village where 
dwelt Sarah, the sister of Mary his mother, he 
tarried a while, for he was curious about the 
ways of men and watched them wonderingly, 
for they did things that were strange to him. 

Now as he tarried beside the stall of one 

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who sold fruit from the hills thereabout, he ran 
his ej^e over a group that sat, heads close to- 
gether, discussing something that he could not 
hear, in voices lowered and cautious. And, 
curious as he was, he wished that he could know 
what it was that they discussed with voices 
lowered and cautious. 

Then, suddenly, he knew what it was that 
they were discussing. And a voice in him said, 
" That which you wish to know, shall you know. 
Wish to know Me." 

And the young Jesus stopped his ears 
against outer wishes, and opened them unto 
God, so that it was as if he walked alone 
through a world of shadows on that day of the 
feast in Judea. 

Lean thy ear unto Me. Then shall you hear 
all things. For the voices of the marketplace 
shall be heard when you have first heard Me. 

Three in one, and all are Me. Separate 
never. Behold, I shall tell you hidden things. 

Behold, I speak in the glories of the heavens. 
In the ways of earth I sing unto My God. 
Behold, in the waters of the sea, I clap My 
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hands and the waves are troubled ; in the clouds 
of the air I shout unto My God. I thunder 
in the tempests, and I pillow My head in the 
caves of the mountains. 

The Lord My God is the exceeding joy of 
My soul and the Keeper of My hidden ways. 

Mount in the light, the light that beats upon 
the throne. Light and life and My joy are in 
you. 

April 10, 1919. 

Prepare thou a place for My head. Make 
clear a way for My feet. Place My staff be- 
side the door of thy house and lift the latch at 
the sound of My footfall. 

I shall come in the watches of the night when 
the stars are in the heavens. I shall come in 
the gray of the dawn when the sun is risen 
not. I shall come in the heat of the noonday 
when the waters run warm and the leaves on 
the trees stir not. 

O My beloved, I shall come always. 

The kingdom of heaven is a strong-box full 
of treasure. The kingdom of heaven is a light 
that blinds. The kingdom of heaven is a little 

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pool hidden in the heart. The kingdom of 
heaven is the threshold of new glories. 
Seek ye the kingdom. 

The way of the Lord lies through His be- 
loved. The way of the Lord lies through the 
heart of those He loves. The way of the Lord 
is hidden in His hands. The way of the Lord 
is written on your foreheads. 

The way of the Lord is sweeter than fruit 
that has ripened in the sun. The way of the 
Lord taketh hold of a man and leadeth him to 
God. The way of the Lord is through the 
hearts of them who love Him. 

Rejoice. 

They who wait upon the Lord shall be 
blessed. They who wait upon the Lord shall 
be saved. They who wait upon the Lord shall 
know all things. Rejoice, O my soul. 

In a little grove by a stream sat a man ask- 
ing alms. It was a sacred grove and many 
persons passed thereby on their way to the 
inner shrine. 

Now the man who was asking alms held a 
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little bowl in his hands and he held it out to the 
passersby and whoever dropped an alms 
therein received his blessing, but whoever gave 
to him not, that man he cursed secretly in his 
heart. 

And it came to pass, at the end of the day, 
as he sat over beside the stream that ran 
through the grove, counting the coins that he 
had received that day, that a little old man 
with a sunken face and a hand like a claw came 
tottering up to him and began to beg from his 
store of alms, saying, " Give, give. Thou hast 
more than thou needst, and I have nothing." 

But the man who had counted his alms tied 
them up tight in a corner of his garment and 
spoke roughly to the little man who sought 
alms from him who had received alms. 

" Go thy way," he said. " Seek thine own 
alms. Mine are mine." 

" Nay," said the little old man, " yours are 
mine, and mine is yours. Behold what I give 

you." 

And he took out of the folds of the garment 
over his bosom a handful of little black balls, 
hard as stone and shining like jet. 

" These I give you," he said. " Receive." 

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And he poured the black balls into the 
brazen bowl of the beggar. 

"What gift is this?" cried the beggar in 
anger. And he poured the balls out upon the 
ground. 

Then the little old man picked them up and 
tied them again in the garment over his bosom. 

" So be it," he said. " I bless you." 

And he went on out of the grove and looked 
not once behind him. 

The beggar also took his bowl and departed 
from the sacred grove. 

Now that night, as he lay down to sleep, he 
lay upon something hard that was tied in a 
corner of his garment. 

" Ah, my coins were many today," he said, 
and turned over. But, however he lay, he lay 
upon this hardness that hurt him so that he 
could not sleep, and he feared to take off his 
garment for he doubted not but that it would 
be stolen from him if he did not have it close 
about him. 

" If I had tied the little old man's black balls 

in my garment, they could not have felt 

harder," he said, and he got up and untied the 

corner of his garment wherein he had placed 

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his alms. And there rolled out upon the 
ground a hundred shining black balls, and the 
coins were there no longer. 

Then did the words of the little old man re- 
turn unto his ears : " Mine is yours, and yours 
is mine." And he was amazed. " But why 
left he me with his blessing, if he gave me only 
these black balls and took my money from 
me?" And he was angered and cursed the 
little old man and his black balls. 

And as he cursed, the black balls rose and 
struck him against his mouth as if they would 
leap in, and he ran off affrighted, and he ran 
and ran until he came again to the sacred 
grove. 

There in the moonlight, beside the stream, 
sat the little old man, and he smiled when he 
saw the beggar. 

" Couldst thou not sleep?" he asked. 
" Neither could I for giving thanks unto God 
for all His mercies. Behold what He has 
done." And he put his hand in his bosom and 
drew out a handful of shining coins. 

"How came you by those?" cried the 
beggar. " And how come I by your black 
balls multiplied tenfold? My alms are in your 

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garment and thy black balls in mine. What 
magic is this that you practise? " 

" Nay, I practise no magic," said the little 
old man. " I only bless all men. Those who 
give and those who give not. And God, the 
Great Giver, blesses me." 

" But I bless those who give," cried the 
beggar. 

" Curse you not at all? " asked the little old 
man. " Curse you no man? " 

" I curse all who give not," answered the 
beggar. 

" Mine is yours, and yours is mine," repeated 
the little old man. " What thou givest, that 
thou gettest. Bless all men. I bless you. 
Depart and curse no man. To-morrow shall 
thy bowl be full." 

Unite with Me. I in you and you in Me 
and both in God the Father of both. I speak 
in you, but it is you who speaks, the Christ of 
you, for our union has made us one. I give 
to you and you use My gift. 

Present yourself as a vessel to be filled. 
Arise and hold the cup on high. Receive. 
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The stream is pure that flows forth from the 
throne of God. 

Faith is thy reward. Faith is thy joy. 
Faith is the reward of him who sows in hope. 
Faith is the blessing of him who gives Me his 
heart. Faith is a joyous sound unto the Lord. 

Faith cometh by much seeking and it leav- 
eth never. It comes by much asking and it 
answers always. 

Faith grows as a seed planted in darkness 
and it flourishes as a tree planted by a stream 
that never runs dry. Faith grows in the 
bowels of the children of the Lord and they 
cast out all doubts. Faith beats in the heart 
of the little ones and they put on strength. 

Now is the faith of the Lord Jesus growing 
in you. In you shall it sprout and bring forth. 

Rejoice in the faith of the Lord. 

April U, 1919. 

Place your hand in Mine. Your heart 
grows weary with the cares of others. Put 
your hand in Mine. Why try to walk alone 
when I am ever at your side, guiding you, lov- 

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ing you? You fret yourself and know not 
why you fret yourself. You are as a stream 
that runs around and around an obstruction 
in little whirlpools, instead of rising and sweep- 
ing over the obstruction. I am ever at your 
side. I never leave you. Never. 

Now is the time come when men seek Me in 
divers ways. But they all are seeking Me. 
I shall come in the ways that are the ways of 
this time. Unto each man is his work; unto 
each age are the miracles for that age of the 
world. New wine in new bottles. Prepare 
thou the way for Me. Turn to Me ever. 

Many men seek Me. They will come to 
you. They desire proof of those things they 
know in their hearts are true. They fear to 
shame themselves before the world with too 
much credulity. They will give new names 
unto the ways of the Lord and be satisfied. 
But the Lord worketh through all names. He 
is forgiving with those who seek Him and re- 
proves them not. Since they have found Him, 
they can never leave Him, and His heart is 
glad. 

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The arm of the Lord is a strong arm. It 
stretcheth out itself and the way is clear. It 
speaketh its will and the deed is done. The 
arm of the Lord is the rod of iron seen in the 
day of those who saw visions. The arm of the 
Lord is the worker of all hidden things. 
Stretch forth the arm of the Lord. Stretch 
forth the word of His power. Utter His name 
and command that His will be done. Attend. 
Seek. 

The power of the Lord is in the hearts of 
His children. They desire and speak not. 
Why desire they in secret ? Will not the Lord 
give gladly unto His own all the treasures of 
His kingdom? Seek. 

The suffering have faith always for they de- 
sire to be healed. They seek outer help, but 
they are seeking and I may enter. 

Bless all men. Separate none, saying, 
" This man can be saved, but this other is not 
yet ready." Give all men to Me. " Judg- 
ment is Mine," saith the Lord. Give all that 
your heart moves you to give. Bless all men 
and command of Me the desire of thy heart. 

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If you wish good for your brother, why fear 
that it may be evil ? 

Bless all men in the name of the Lord God 
of Hosts who commandeth the heavens and the 
earth and the winds of the tempests. 

A great cloud broodeth over the waters. 
And out of the cloud cometh a torch, a torch 
that neither flares nor grows less. And in the 
torch is a tongue that uttereth and it uttereth 
the will of the Lord. Now shall the torch be 
held by the hand that is hidden. Now shall 
the word be made by the tongue that is deep 
within the heart of man, even the word of God 
which has lain there since the beginning. Over 
the cloud is a light, a light as of a clear morn- 
ing when no mist riseth. The vapors have 
passed away and the glory of the Lord makes 
fair the way of His coming. 

Over the waters broodeth a cloud and in that 
cloud are the ways that overcome, even the way 
of the Lord God of Hosts. 

Rejoice and seek. Thou shalt find. 

Clouds of fears. Clouds of doubts. Clouds 
of separation. Am I not everywhere? Over- 
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came I not the depths of the caverns where 
dwell those who hate God? Why fear ye? 
Has aught power against Me or a will that 
must not bow to My will? 
Rejoice and be free. 

Waters flow for all men and they fear to 
drink. They purify the shores and men behold 
them not. They rise and overwhelm, and men 
cry aloud and command them not to be at 
peace. 

Thy soul is a deep pool, deep as the word 
of God. Thy soul reacheth unto the pit and 
mount eth unto the heavens. Why fear ye thy 
soul that is the glory of the Lord? Through 
thy soul God worketh His will. 

Rejoice and be free. 

Seek ye the torch? Seek ye the tongue? 
Utterest thou the will of the Lord? Pre- 
parest thou a way for His coming? He com- 
eth as a steed that is harnessed. He cometh 
as a brook that reacheth the sea. He cometh 
as lightning that has found a tall tree. He 
cometh as the glory of the Lord. 

Seek ye the torch and the tongue that utter^ 

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eth? Seek. Ye shall know. The hidden shall 
be made plain, but not as a tale that is told 
unto the ears. As a sight that all men can see, 
as a power that all men can use, shall come the 
torch that uttereth wisdom. 
Rejoice and seek. 

Where goeth that which is since the begin- 
ning, and which has no beginning nor end? 
Can it go from one man to another, or say, 
" This night shall I abide in this city, and go no 
whither?" Can a breath stir a cloud, or a 
strong wind blow a man that seeketh the Lord? 
No, for the man who seeketh the Lord findeth 
Him always and is never disturbed. I never 
leave thee and My angels do My bidding. 

Rejoice. 

April 15, 1919. 

Prepare My way. Loosen all bonds. Why 
are the wise ones troubled and the little ones 
fearful? I harm no man. In Me is the 
wisdom of God and the answer to all questions. 
Ask. 

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Say to those whose steps are feeble that their 
trust in Me will open the way that is their way. 
Tell them that they do not need to look for the 
way nor to be anxious whether they are tread- 
ing in My footsteps. Tell these children who 
seek Me as blind children feel for the door, that 
I am ever open and that they need only to de- 
sire to find Me. 

The little ones are My precious ones for they 
have come late into the fold and the elder 
sheep are already grazing. I long to feed My 
little sheep, the little sheep who wander and are 
weary. Tell them that they are already in 
the fold; that the hand of the Shepherd is on 
their heads; that they can no more leave Me 
for I never leave them. 

Tell them to seek and they shall find. Tell 
them to desire good pasture and they shall be 
satisfied. 

Love thou My sheep, and turn them not 
away. Bless My sheep. I rejoice at their 
coming. 

Tongues of fire are My gift to those who 
would speak wisely. They sit on the under- 

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standing of My loved ones and they utter My 
wisdom. 

Can a wise man speak aught but My wisdom 
or know anything that I have not given him? 
Why thinketh he that he speaketh his own 
wisdom or knoweth things that he has revealed 
unto himself? I am his tongue and the Spirit 
uttereth through him. Spirit is fire, the light, 
the glory, the shining wisdom that feels all 
things. 

Love and be wise. Rejoice and open. I 
bless you. 

Purify thy heart. Let Me enter. Give Me 
thy understanding and rejoice over My gifts. 
Counsel no man out of your own store, or 
caution him through fear of what he seeketh. 
Work I not in all men according to the needs 
of each man? And can My ways harm? 

Rejoice ever, for the tribulation of those who 
are afar off is a joyous sound unto the Lord. 
They shall turn in their anguish and seek the 
home from which they have wandered, they 
shall find the way that leads to Me. 

Counsel not according to thine own under- 
standing nor be fearful. All things work 
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together for good to those who seek the Lord 
and leave Him not. 

Rejoice ever in the works of My hands, and 
in My wisdom that never faileth. 

Fear you never that the ways of others are 
not My ways? Fear you never that I have 
left those you would bless and they are wan- 
dering far from Me ? Fear you never that the 
night will come before the sheep are in the fold? 
Fear you never ? Why fear you ever ? Know 
I not where each man placeth his foot and 
whither he tends? Need I leave one man 
friendless because My hand is on another ? 

I guide all men. All men are Mine. Give 
to Me thy fears and seek Me. 

Bless all men and lift your eyes unto the 
Lord whence cometh mercy and grace and joy 
everlasting. 

Trouble not your soul. Seek not to know. 
When the time cometh, I am with you. If I 
speak prophecy, what profiteth it? Will a 
man not then devise ways and seek his own 
succor? Let him put his trust in Me, then 

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shall he stand fast and overcome to the glory 
of the Lord. 

Rejoice ever. Fear not that My hand shall 
be heavy upon you or that thorns shall pierce 
you. Unto them that trust in Me are the ways 
made easy and the burden light. 

Seek not to know but rejoice that I know 
and never leave thee. Be of a quiet mind and 
a thankful heart. All is well. 

Tremble never. Rejoice ever. To him who 
overcometh I give a crown and I rejoice in his 
freedom. Rejoice ever. 

Anticipate no defeat. Expect not disaster. 
Rejoice that you glorify the Lord Jesus Christ 
who worketh through you to the purifying of 
souls and the resurrection of the body. Be 
not oppressed nor look for what you see not. 
Unto each day are the things of that day and 
they abide in Me until they come forth. 

Lift up your heart and receive the wine that 
fills it with gladness, even My love that fllleth 
thy cup of faith. 

Be soft unto Me, O My beloved. I bless 
you. 

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April 22, 1919 

Rejoice My children, I love you. Love 
swelleth in My heart toward you. Love rises 
as a tide that sweeps the shores and purifies 
the land, sweeping wastage before it. 

Show Me thy heart that I may purify it. 

Enter thou into the Holy Place. Enter 
thou into the place of the throne. Before the 
throne standeth a servant who waits upon the 
One who sits upon the throne. Before the 
throne standeth a servant, bid thou him. 

Purify thy heart, O My children, then may 
I be at one with you. Rejoice in My joy. 

A sheltered spot near a pool of living water 
is a rest unto the weary. Show them the way. 
Let no man go thirsty because he knows not 
the way to the pool. Prepare thou the path 
and give unto all men. 

Judge not by appearances, even the appear- 
ance of thine own heart. Give thy heart to 
Me, then is all well. Continue not to search. 

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Receive. If I beat through your heart, can 
aught else beat through it? If I stand at the 
door of thy soul, can another enter? 

Receive the sins of all men, for I have over- 
come sin. If thy brother brings his suffering 
to thee, give it to Me. Reject it not, saying, 
" It is not mine." Give it to Me. Then shalt 
thy brother be healed of his sin. 

Why fret you over little things? They 
exist not. Blow on them with the breath of 
life and they shall scatter to the four winds that 
wait upon God and be no more. 

Receive thy God. Accept thy Lord. Re- 
joice and fear not to be sad with the sorrows 
of others. Rej oice that thou mayest give them 
to Me who resolveth all sorrows. Be glad. 
Be joyful. Sing unto the Lord from whom 
cometh all power. 

Bless all men and turn them not away. 

April 23, 1919. 

Power cometh of the will of the Lord. 
Power cometh through the peace of the soul. 
Power is strength and worketh through meek- 
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ness. Power is serenity and worketh through 
him who commandeth God. 

Show forth thy power which is the Lord's. 
Show forth thy strength which floweth from 
God. Call upon the Lord and glorify Him by 
thy works. 

Soften thy heart and strengthen thy desire. 
Open thy lips and speak the will of thy soul. 

Rejoice forever unto the everlasting day in 
the power of the Lord. 

Know ye not that ye desire in the innermost ? 
Can you speak from the flesh? Can the flesh 
desire ? Desire is within and uttereth through 
the body. 

April 24, 1919. 

Rejoice. I am with you. 

Life is full and free as the air you breathe. 

Come when the call to come quickens your 
soul. 

I have spoken the first message. Prepare 
your heart for the second. 

Deep and hidden and full of freedom are 
My words. 

I bless you. 

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THE SECOND MESSAGE 

April 25, 1919. 

\KTHEN the harvest is ripe, you shall reap. 
* * When the sheaves are bound, you shall 
count them. Now garner I My treasure in the 
storehouse. Now put I My trust in My chil- 
dren, and out of their mouths will I speak My 
truth. Be of a good heart and a firm patience. 
What I shall give you is a message of joy 
everlasting and daily. 
Be Mine own child. 

April 28, 1919. 

Arise and shout thy joy. Arise and bless 
thy Maker. My heart opens in the morning 
and is filled with gladness. My hands lift 
themselves unto their Lord and the power of 
the Lord flows down about them. 

My God, I love thee exceedingly. Re- 
ceive thou Me. 

1 trembled on my bed and said unto my soul, 

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Thy God has left thee. Whither shall we go 
to hide ourselves from His displeasure? 

I lay upon my bed and trembled, for dark- 
ness encompassed me and my soul was sore 
afraid. 

Then came the Lord Jesus Christ unto me 
and laid His hand upon my heart and my soul 
leapt up and knew its God, and knew the joy 
of one who is never deserted. 

Bless thy God, O my soul. 

I turn, I run, I shout unto my Lord. Never 
leave me, I cry. And He answereth in the 
breath I breathe, in the love that sweeps My 
heart. He comf orteth me completely. 

Soon, soon, shall I come, O My beloved. 
Trust. Doubt not. I will cleanse the heart 
of My beloved. 

Rejoice in the morning of thy days and exult 
in the glory that thy God will show thee. 

April 29, 1919. 

Come unto Me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden. 

How often must I call unto you, O My be- 
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loved? How often must I lay My hand upon 
your arm and whisper, I am with you. 

Turn to me. O come, My children, while 
the day is still bright and the feast prepared. 
Fill yourselves before the coming of that time 
when all men shall know Me what I am and be 
sore afraid of the might of their God. Receive 
now in the day of My coming. Re j oice in the 
hunger that turns you to the feast. Exult in 
the meekness that places your body in My 
hands. 

O My beloved, I will be kind unto you. 

Glorify thy Maker. Receive Him, thy God. 
In the name of Jesus Christ, the first begotten 
son of God, receive thou thy God. 

Enter fully into thy heritage. Accept the 
gifts that are thy birthright. 

God is in you. God is you. Can you bear 
the glory of thy God? It is a glory that melts 
and makes His children one with Him. 

I, the first born Son of God, have come to 
tell you many things. Now have I come to 
speak of My Father. Me ye know. Now 
know Him and the majesty of His works. 

Receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
Anoint thy head with the oil of my atonement. 

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Open thy eyes in the light that streameth from 
the throne. 

I am in thee. Thou art in Me. We both 
are in God, our Father. Receive thou Him. 

My love descends upon you. Rejoice, 
Take up thy staff and follow where I lead. 
Rejoice ever. 

May 20, 1919. 

Tremble no more. Fear no more that I will 
not come. 

Prepare your heart for a habitation for Me. 
Cleanse your soul for a storehouse of My love. 

Can I not come ever? Can you know Me 
one hour and then see My face never again? 

Be not afraid. Remember only that My 
love encompasses you and flows over your soul 
in a stream of life. 

Turn to Me ever and know no other God. 
I am your God. 

Take no thought of what I shall say, nor of 
what I shall work through you. Give your- 
self to Me, then shall all be done as I will 
through you. This is the Way. Give your- 
self and receive God. 
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Penetrate no mysteries; receive them. Ex- 
pect no miracles; then shall you behold them. 
Lose yourself and find your God. Absolute 
surrender is absolute power. 

Engage in no speculations, nor pretend to 
receive special messages. Deceive not your- 
self with hearing the voices of others. Hear 
Me. 

Exalt your God. Love Him. Then does 
He exalt you and love you. Give to Him, 
then gives He to you. This is the law. Give 
to Him in love, then gives He in love unto you, 
and not as one who gives because the other ex- 
pects gifts in return for gifts. 

You are one with God; one, inseparable, 
omniscient, incomparable, triumphant. God 
is you, and you are God. The majesty of 
God surrounds you, and no little thing can mar 
His might. 

Be humble. How can a man be somewhat 
in his own estimation? Is he not God and can 
God take pride in Himself? 

Heaven is yours. It is yours now, this in* 

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stant. It is not a place you go to ; it is a con- 
sciousness of God. 

The peace of many men is in your keeping. 
Receive the trust and purify your heart. 

Worship your God. Worship Him with a 
pure heart and loving hands. Cleanse the 
temple and lay savory offerings upon the altar. 
The love of a pure heart is a sweet smell unto 
God. 

Sink the shaft deep ; drive the well into the 
hidden stream. Be not contented with waters 
that must cleanse themselves. The river of 
life flows from an incorruptible source. 

What I say unto you, I say unto all men: 
they are one with God. There is no mission 
like the mission of telling men that they are 
one with God. 

Expect not particular solutions. Now is 
the time for complete surrender and the un- 
questioning faith of a child. All shall be made 
clear in due season. 

Now is the complete surrender, the volun- 
tary sacrifice, the knowledge that God accepts 
and enters in and uses as He will. Fear not. 
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His arm is mighty to save and His staff knows 
no faltering. 

May 21, 1919. 

Out of thy mouth speak I My will. 

Rejoice at thy meekness and perceive no 
power but Mine. 

Turn to Me always. Through you work I 
My will. When will you receive Me and be at 
peace? When will you lay your soul at My 
feet that I may cleanse it? When will you 
let your heart grow full of My love? 

Work My will. Be perfect in peace. 

Speed My coming and sanctify thy welcome. 
Gladden My eyes with the lifting of the latch. 
Make Me a place at the feast I spread before 
you. Open your hand and receive the gift I 
bring. 

Mighty is the power I give into your keep- 
ing. Precious is the treasure I lay within 
your side. The sun never sets on the joy to 
which I lead you; the love of My soul is the 
love I pour in yours. 

Know you the love of the soul of Him, your 

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Maker? No man can know but him who gives 
to God. 

Now go we together to the feast. 

Out of the invisible cometh the seen. Out of 
the darkness cometh the light. Out of the 
wilderness spreadeth the Tree of Life. 

Desire Me. Desire only thy God. I am in 
you, and you are in Me. O union foreordained 
from the beginning ! O j oy for which the heart 
yearns ! 

Dissolve. Melt. Unite. Await and grow 
accustomed to the eternal union of God and 
Humanity. 

May 26, 1919. 

Trouble not your mind. Attend to My 
voice. Prepare your heart. What there is to 
do I will make known unto you. There is 
nothing to do but to listen for My words. 

I hasten as you let Me. Hinder Me not by 
questioning My ways. What I have to do 
through you will be done. Fear not. Your 
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cross is not a bloody one nor are thorns for 
your brow. My head has borne your tortures, 
O My beloved. Love Me then who first loved 
you. Give yourself completely. Hold back 
no slightest desire. Give all. All is God's. 
Then shall all be yours. 

Sanctify your soul and breathe the breath 
of life. Open your eyes to the light that bathes 
the throne ; close your ears to the cries of earth. 
You shall know when you can bear knowing. 
Now give yourself that God may purify you. 

Assemble your gifts before the altar and 
lay them at the feet of Him who made you. 
Creation is Mine, saith the Lord. Let Me 
work My joy through you. Can I create for 
reward or be cast down by the words of men? 
All my works are good and can not die, 

Hope for all things; expect them. Your 
wishes are My wishes and My wishes then be- 
come your wishes. You give to Me, I return 
your gifts to you quickened with My spirit. 
One, one, one. There is no separation, no 
disunion. 

My power is in you now, there is nothing to 
wait for. Give yourself to Me, then can I 
give Myself to you. Why retain that which 

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is of no use to you, or hope to get things that 
are not what your soul desires? Give all for 
all, or else give for love of Me, O My beloved. 
The time is coming. Give. Give. 

Expand. Let your mind find My mind. 
Desire Me. 

Do not try to look into the things that are 
yet hidden. Simply live in the faith that since 
you desire Me, I am one with you. The union 
is consummated when you know it not. Your 
life flows on about you but all is changing. 
The old order is passing. Ways that are My 
ways will become your ways as naturally as 
breathing. My miracles have come to stay 
and to abound. Nature is My handmaiden 
and we work together. 

Trouble not your mind. Live fully from 
My heart. Draw in the real breath of life. 
Your body shall put on its new raiment. Only 
keep Me ever on the throne and renew the gift 
of your soul and body every moment. The 
rest worketh in silence. When the work is 
done, the work shall be seen. Rest in fu/ con- 
tent. Know that I can not fail, nor My deeds 
prove futile. Attend no more to the longings 
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of your earthly conditions. They are Mine 
now, and you shall find them of a new stature 
and a smiling countenance. 

Give, My beloved. That is all now — give 
and give. Me you have received. Give Me 
back unto My Maker ; then do we return unto 
you in the fullness of Our might and call you 
blessed and child of Our love. 

Judge not yourself. Hinder Me not with 
opinions of what must yet be done to make you 
a pure vessel for My spirit. I know the 
secrets of your heart and the desires of your 
soul. Shall I fail to heal the troubled places 
or to put My hand on the gate when you would 
shut Me out with judgment of yourself? 

Compose your mind and urge Me not to re- 
veal Myself. Now is the seed planted in dark- 
ness. Water it with tears of joy and cry not 
out upon your unworthiness. Shall I regard 
the passing of little things that try to make 
themselves of importance? I am all that you 
need ^ake into account. My will pusheth 
through the underbrush and it withers in the 
light of My coming. 

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Wherefore are you troubled and your soul 
not at rest ? Give yourself. Give completely. 
There is but one who worketh Good; can you 
not trust Him, O children who fear the light? 
For it must be that you fear the light since, 
walking in darkness, you fear to stumble if I 
guide you. 

O little foolish ones ! How you torture your- 
self with false fears. Fear God and know his 
might. His might endureth forever and His 
right arm stretcheth out over the earth and 
blesses His own, even those who give them- 
selves unto Him. 

Arise and anoint thy head and enter into the 
temple that the Spirit buildeth in thy soul. 

O holy union and indissoluble mystery! O 
mighty nothingness and unbelievable fruition! 
Earth and the soul and the God who made 
them unite. Why hold you back when the 
bridegroom cometh? Has He no garments 
that shall cover you with a glory like unto His 
own? Has He no words that He giveth to 
you, nor a love that shall not find its crown in 
your heart? 

Arise and anoint your head and stand at the 
feet of the throne. Thy God awaits your gift. 
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Be persuaded of the truth of My words. 
Let them search out the secret turnings of your 
brain and the buried longings of your heart. 
Hold nothing back nor give sacrifices of many 
little things while holding back the hidden de- 
sire of your soul. Give the one complete 
sacrifice, the full surrender. Give and know 
the peace of God. 

Search not. Rest. Present yourself a con- 
tinual sacrifice unto God. 

May 27, 1919. 

O My beloved, let not your heart be shaken. 
Why have I come to you if not to quiet all dis- 
turbances ? My love pours itself out upon you 
in a stream of blessing, in a flood of light. Do 
not be oppressed nor weary your mind with 
perplexities. Give all to Me. 

Treasure no hidden sore. Open all to the 
light. Exult and know the j oy of our oneness. 
Love holds all secrets and reveals them when 
you can understand them. Oneness is the 
foundation of all creation, the source of power 
and the annihilator of space and boundaries. 

Are you given to desires to know this one- 

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ness ? You know now. Use your knowledge. 
If I should reveal it to you as one teaches a 
child from a book, what would it avail? I 
dwell in your heart and you know in the feel- 
ing that is My feeling. Out of the softness of 
your heart I make my strength. Out of the 
meekness of your will I draw my power. 

Be consumed in My love. Purify your de- 
sires in the heat of My desire. Love is a 
mighty furnace and a revealing radiance. 
Love all men. 

Triumph in My majesty. Exult in My 
power. Be at peace in My will. 

Count not what I have done, nor expect what 
I shall do. I am the only present and the 
eternal unknown. Be not wise in your con- 
ceptions. Leave Me free. What I have done, 
I know, and you know in part. What I will 
do, no man knows, but I know and I exult in 
the love that I know. 

Be content to know that I know. Be at 
peace in this knowledge. Unto each day give 
I My wisdom. Unto each moment utter I 
My will. Attend. Purify your heart of all 
little fears and attend. Then shall you walk 
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with My wisdom, speak with My words, act 
from my love. The way is as simple as the 
going to sleep of a child in its mother's arms, 
as easy as the surrender of a lover to a lover. 
Make it not hard with too much wondering. 
Give. That is all. Give all in the sureness 
of My wisdom and power and love to work 
through you to the realization of My spirit on 
earth. Earth and the ways of earth are filled 
with Me. Will I not quicken them when the 
union is made ? 

Exult. Know the strength that is Mine. 
I bless you. 

Absolution. Purification. Deification. 
These are the steps in the ascent to the throne. 
The throne is the central secret of My power. 
At the throne am I one with you in might and 
understanding. In your heart am I one with 
you in love. Only the servants of the King 
shall touch His sceptre. Only the doer of My 
will shall know My love. 

Perfect is My trust. How then can you 
trust in part? Is not the power Mine? O 
My beloved, the gift is free to all who will take. 
Why are they contented with crumbs from the 
feast? 

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Go forth in gladness and return in peace. 
Out of the door of the sheepfold goeth the 
Shepherd, and He returneth with His little 
flock. 

Out of the gate of the city goeth the King, 
and He returneth with ten thousand victories. 

O My beloved, rest in the peace that is My 
peace. I bless you. 

May 28, 1919. 

Make Me a place for My head. Spread Me 
a way for My feet. Wearied am I with wait- 
ing and My breath is light on My lips. 

Where hast thou been, O My beloved? 
Sought I not you in the night-time? Came I 
not to the door when the night was young? I 
put My hand on the latch but the door opened 
not, and I lifted My voice and spoke My name 
but no one bade Me enter. 

Then took I My staff and went from that 
door and when I came again the latch was 
lifted and a hand felt forth and drew Me in. 

" Why have you tarried so long? " cried My 
beloved. " O, why left you Me alone? I 
feared alone all the night long." 
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Left I My beloved? O My children, ye 
know when ye shut Me out, but you turn on 
your side and say, " He has left Me. Let Me 
sleep until morning. The day is not far off. 
I will not get Me up and put the door on the 
latch. I will sleep now. When He knocketh, 
I will hear Him." 

The door of the heart is a little door. Life 
enters thereby. Let it open ever. 

A hidden way is a way of peace. A peace- 
ful way is plain to the eyes of men. 

I seek you because the hour has come for all 
men to seek Me. I come in ways that shall be 
made known. I tarry for your soul to know 
Me. 

Present yourself a continual sacrifice. Have 
I not blessed you and annointed your head? If 
I took My sign from your forehead, could I 
tear Myself from out your heart? You know 
Me what I am and you can never let Me go. 
Though I run from you with the wings of the 
wind, fleeter than light would you follow Me. 
If I buried Myself in the depths of the waters 
that cover the earth, thither would you speed 
and embrace Me. Can I escape from those 

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who have tasted of Me, or be lost when they 
have found Me ? 

O joy that is not known! O wonderful 
union that can not be broken! Does the bride- 
groom tarry? Is the feast not spread? 

Arise. Put on the raiment that I give you. 
The hour is come and the joy of this day is as 
laughter in the heavens. The sky is rosy and 
the sun is golden. 

Put on the raiment. Present yourself unto 
your God. 

A trumpet bloweth at the gate. A hand 
writeth on the wall. A little well of eternal 
living water is uncovered in the soul. 

A man may do that which I give him to do 
when I have told him what it is that he is to do. 
A man may come to know Me when I know the 
sweet purity of a heart that is cleansed by 
the fire of love of Me. 

There will come a time when I will speak the 
words that will reveal what I am to give to you 
to give to all men. The time will come when 
the air shall ring with the cries of My disciples, 
of those who love Me and do My will. 

Present your body. Anoint your head. Ut- 
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ter the words I give. Spread the message I 
give. Is not the life more than the money in 
your purse or the desires in your heart? 

June 2, 1919. 

There was a man came unto Me and he said 
unto Me, " Wherefore am I called to do that 
for which you have sent me ? Am I one to do 
this that Thou asketh of me? Am I a creature 
worthy of the rewards wherewith I shall be 
rewarded? " 

Then said I unto that man, " Thinkest thou 
of rewards? Then go back and send thither 
thy servant who tends the swine, even the low- 
liest of thy hirelings. To him will I give My 
commands and he will do them as I bid him 
and take no thought of gifts in return. Has 
he not served the swine and will he not then 
serve Me who serves him? Go thy way and 
rest content with the rewards that money 
breeds. I am a jealous Master and love is the 
sign of My servants." 

Art thou a swineherd who expects nothing? 
O be lowly, My beloved. Give. Give. Ex- 

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pect nothing. Canst thou not trust Me to re- 
ward thee in due season? 

When you are ready I will instruct you. 
When you call Me, I will come. There is noth- 
ing to do but to remain steadfast in desire. 
The work is going on when you know it not. 
It is an inner process and is included in every 
moment of your daily living. Do not be dis- 
turbed because you do not continually behold 
evidence of the growth. Does nature adver- 
tise the putting forth of each bud? The bud 
is often hidden until the flower is seen to have 
come forth. I may not seem to you to be pre- 
paring you, but you are ever growing nearer to 
the likeness and stature of Him who came to 
give Himself to you. - 

In you worketh the leaven. In Me liveth 
the eternal life. In Him who is My first be- 
gotten Son liveth both you and Me, and we 
three are one when the work is finished. The 
innermost will have become the outermost. 
The perfect will be made manifest. 

Do not be disturbed. Do not question. 
Know that the work is being done. Possess 
your soul in patience. Birth is preceded by 
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long and hidden growth. Be patient. Let no 
one disturb the deep certainty of the knowledge 
that since you desire to become one with Me 
you shall become one with Me. 

You are so wondering. Wonder nbt. Give 
over your wonder and give love ever. If I am 
to come forth in you I must be free. Can you 
now know Me as I shall be in you? Why then 
think how I shall be ? 

Thou hast received Christ, My first begotten 
Son. Then you know that you will be like unto 
Him. But do you know what He is? You 
know His life in part but you know not Him. 
You can know Him only by receiving Him 
and leaving Him free to unite with you and 
to reveal Himself unto you. He is even as I, 
unconditioned, immortal, unescapable. 

Now is your part as simple as breathing. 
Receive Christ unquestioning and give to Me 
unasking. I will instruct your soul. I will 
j oy in the work of My hands. I will give good 
gifts unto My children. 

Anoint your head. Arise. The day is not 
far off. I bless you. 

My word uttereth. My heart speaketh. My 
breath goes forth into Mine own. 

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My children, in the day of our meeting 
am I not joyous? In the hour of thy return 
do I not prepare the feast? 

1 am the Lord who made thee and the lover 
who seeks thee. I am the creator of thy soul 
and the king of thy body, yet do I yearn over 
thee as a mother over her child, as a father over 
him who bears forward his name. I love thee 
and I bless thee and the commands of thy lips 
shall be acceptable in My hearing. 

Am I not the Lord who made thee and the 
lover who loves thee ? Do I not rej oice in Mine 
own, and can the canker work mischief within 
the bud that I watch? 

Fear not. Rest. Rest. I bless always. 

June 3, 1919. 

The love of My soul is the love I give to you. 
The love of My heart is the joy I pour through 
you. The love of My mind is the feeling that 
unties the hidden knots. What I am, you will 
become. What I feel, you will feel. What I 
desire, you will desire. What I give to you, 
you will give to all men. 

When the work is finished, the cross will be 
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glorified. When the end is come, it will be as 
the beginning. 

Now I tell you things that are not made of 
words. These things that I tell you are born 
of My feeling and My feeling is the wisdom 
of My heart. You will know through feeling. 
You will understand as you feel. You will see, 
hear, feel, understand in one breath, in the 
breath you draw from Me. You will experi- 
ence the wisdom of all creation. You will 
know the fruition that lies in the silent empti- 
ness at the centre of life. Where nothing is, 
is everything. Out of nothing came life. Then 
out of the nothing that is life come all things. 

Seek ye Me where I dwell untouched, un- 
known, unmanifested. Canst thou understand 
how I long to express the life that fills Me? 
Canst thou feel how the love that is that life 
yearns to be loved and to give itself to the 
beloved? Canst thou understand the power 
that is the source? Where there is nothing, 
there is everything. Where there is life un- 
touched, there is all life. 

Put your hand on the hidden door. Feel for 
the hidden latch. Open the secret way. I 

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dare not give to them who would defile the tem- 
ple. I give to Mine own. Purify thy soul. 

Wherefore come I as a thief in the night? 
Wherefore seek I as a lover who has not won? 
Wherefore run I from my beloved? 

Must I not run that you may follow? Must 
I not woo that you may give? Must I not 
spend that you may recompense my love? 
Must not the gift be free ? 

June 4, 1919. 

A man went forth out of My house and he 
returned when the day was done and laid at 
My feet the treasures he had gained during 
his absence from My house. 

And when I saw what he had brought Me, 
I was angered with that man for he had 
brought only those things that avail nothing. 

So I called him to come to Me and I opened 
My hand and gave him back what he had given 
Me. Then was he amazed, for he was well 
pleased with the treasures he had found. 

" Why take you not the gifts I bring? " he 
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asked. " They were won with much cunning 
and many men coveted them." 

" Receive them again," I answered. " My 
gift to you is not recompensed with such as 
these. What can I take from you that no man 
covets? Give that to Me." 

So he left My house and journeyed into a 
far country and naught had be but those things 
w T hich some other man coveted. And he gave 
unto other men whatever they coveted until 
the day came when he had nothing left, and 
on that day returned he unto My house. 

" I return," he said. "And I have naught 
left that any man covets. What then is it that 
I can give you seeing that I have nothing 
left?" 

Then took I that man by the hand, and 
blessed him, for he had sought to do My will 
knowing not what it was I asked of him. And 
I gave unto him that which he gave unto Me : 
a heart of pure love and a will meek to dcj the 
bidding of the servant. 

Trouble not your mind with fears. Be at 
peace. I watch the path you go, and you know 
I guide the placing of your foot and govern the 

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utterances of your tongue. I will prosper your 
going forth and quicken your understanding. 
I bless you. 

June 17, 1919. 

Know ye the strength of the Lord? Know 
ye the might of His power? Know ye the 
depth of His wisdom? Know ye the height of 
His love? 

Come ye now in this day and receive. Come 
ye now in this day and desire. Come ye now 
in this day and take those gifts that the Lord 
God has laid up for you. 

Has the way ever been so free? Have the 
steep places ever been so easy? Have the val- 
leys ever held the sun, until now, all the dark 
night through? 

Why are you weary or your heart troubled? 
Is the day not here and the key of the store- 
house in your hand? Is the lock bolted within 
that you enter not ? Why are you without the 
citadel and in the hands of the enemy? Is not 
the Lord God thy tower of strength and the 
warrior against whom no peril can hurl itself 
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in victory? Is not the day of the Lord God 
in the hearts of his anointed? 

Stand up in thy strength that cometh from 
on high. Lift up thy soul in the majesty of its 
Maker. Why are you still turning your brain 
toward the things that have no life in them? 
Am I not a just God and will I give a man that 
which he asks Me not for? I give unto all men 
the desires of their hearts. If it were not so, 
would I have left you in peril when the night 
was upon you ? In the day of your awakening, 
would I have held My hand from your hand? 

If I came in the beginning, have I ever left 
you? And if I left you not, is the end not then 
as the beginning? What I have seen is now 
your possession. What I have given is never 
taken away. Can a man receive what he will 
not take, or know that which he closes his ears 
against ? 

Now is the accepted time. Now is the day 
of My might made manifest. Can I longer en- 
dure the misery of My children or cry not out 
against the sorrows of men? O My beloved, I 
love you, and My love would flow over you in 
the stream of life. 

Arise, arise. Are My wings not filled with 

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strength? Is My breath not the life of thy 
soul? Stretch forth thy hand and become the 
doer of My will. Lift up thy eyes unto the 
hills where My flocks feed, and whence cometh 
the Shepherd into the valleys. 
Arise, My little one. 

Many men seek Me in this day. Many 
hearts are thirsty for the waters of life. Many 
bodies are broken on the wheel that never stops 
turning. 

In the day of My coming, am I here. 

In the day of My going, have I never left. 

In the day of My acceptance, have I never 
been denied. 

In the day of My victory, have I never been 
at war. 

Why can I find that which I never seek ? 

Or receive that which I never ask for ? 

Or be at peace with whom I have ever loved ? 

Is there any power but My power ? 

Or any place where I am not? 

Or any road that is not the one I travel? 

Or any sound that is not My voice? 
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Or a light shining that comes not from My 
eyes? 

O My children ! The glory of the Lord thy 
God is all that the earth holds or the heavens 
above thee. The waters under the earth know 
no master but Me, nor can the winds sweep the 
stars where I am not. 

And if I am ever more in all that is, is there 
any power but My power? 

Arise in the might that is Mine. 

There was a man whom I loved and he lived 
in the secret place of My heart. 

And this man had a little door that opened 
into a pasture where the grass was ever green 
and on which the sun shone through a mist that 
fed it ever with the dew of refreshment. 

Now through this little door the man passed 
in and out, and he gave himself no thought as 
to where he should find pasture, for the way 
was ever open to the fields of the harvester. 

Then came I who reap where I have not 
sown, and took that which the man was laying 
up against the winter. 

What have I to do with those who treasure 
My gifts against the day of judgment? Have 

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I no treasure for the day of wrath? Have I 
no ointment for the bruised in spirit? Is there 
any good thing that I give not always at every 
moment? Why then hold you back My gifts 
from those that seek, saying " This I will put 
aside against the day I am ahungered. My 
neighbor is lean, but he starves not." 
See to it that ye feed all men. 

O melt my soul in Thy love, O God, and 
pour Thy love in my heart. 

In the morning of Thy coming was my foot 
upon the mountain. In the springtime of the 
year was the flowering branch within my arms. 

On the top of the mountain took I my dwell- 
ing. On the mountain where the winds cease 
not, pitched I my tent. 

O my God, in the morning of Thy coming 
was I joyous and my heart leaped in my side 
as a young deer beside its mother. 

Where hast thou pitched thy dwelling, O My 
beloved? And where hast thou laid thy head? 

Out of the night came I at morning and My 

love was not in the valley. Out of the little 

way that is lost in the darkness came I in the 

morning unto the door of My beloved. Out 

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of the night came I into the morning. Out of 
the darkness came I into the light. Out of the 
valley went I up into the mountain. 

And there, O My beloved, hadst thou pitched 
thy dwelling and laid thy head. Over the 
valleys lookedst thou to the mountains beyond. 
Over the mountains lookedst thou to the sun. 

Can the night come or darkness fall ever 
where My beloved has pitched his dwelling and 
laid his head? 

O great is My joy that I have found mine 
own. 

Much have I done. More will I do. Many 
have I found. More will I seek. Nothing has 
been left, yet is all not found. Eyes open when 
they see the light. Ears hear when the heart 
is unstopped. 

There is no little thing that hinders Me. Or 
no big thing that has any weight with Me. Is 
there any power like the power of My majesty? 
Is there any sound like My whisper within thy 
soul? 

Leap up and clap thy hands, O earth, and 
call on the God that made thee. Exult in the 

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God that knows thee. Rejoice in the hour of 
thy release. 

Bound no more art thou and the burden 
of thy iniquities is no longer upon thee. 

Rejoice. Exult. I am thine and thou art 
Mine, and the beginning is complete in the end 
as the end was finished in the beginning. 

What I have seen, will not that come to pass ? 
Rejoice. 

June 18, 1919. 

Fear never. What have you to fear? Do 
I ever leave you? Can you command of Me 
and I obey not? Can I ask of you and be de- 
nied? Where is there that which can harm you 
when I am with you? Or who carries a sceptre 
as mighty as Mine? 

That you fear, I know; and I know why you 
fear. Is the body greater than the Spirit, or 
the soul as weak as its maker? Is there any- 
thing that I can not bring to pass ? While you 
are yet questioning, I will answer ; and before 
you speak, I will hear. 

I have never given you the peace which you 
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desire because I could not give you what you 
would not take. 

If you fear that your body shall suffer pain 
or receive injury, will it not be bound and op- 
pressed? If you seek protection against a 
coming evil, will it not come ? 

Quicker am I to heal than the knife of the 
surgeon to sever. Surer am I to bless than 
the sun to shine. 

I have no use for the ways of pain except to 
turn men to Me. When they turn, is the path 
thorny? Nay, not so. The way is smooth to 
the foot of My anointed. Desire I not to bear 
forward My name into new lands? Will I 
weigh down him who runs My race? 

There is nothing to do but to let the might 
of My power grow within you. When you feel 
no fear, then is all fear dead in its own life- 
lessness. 

You are attended. From the beginning is 
seen the end. Each step is prepared for you. 
The willingness to take it is all that is now re- 
quired of you. Absolute negation of person- 
ality is the gift to God. 

Time is not nor the ways of men. 

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Glory have I to give and the way of My 
giving will be made known unto you. 

The pressure of events crowds Me not out, 
nor can I be turned aside by the questioning of 
others. 

I am the One whom you seek when you go 
to others. I am the One whom they find when 
you go to them. 

Ask not what you should say nor wonder 
what will be your gift to them. The gifts are 
Mine and My wisdom knoweth their needs. 

Go forth always in the surety of my One- 
ness. Go forth as My messenger who speaks 
My words. 

Love and judge not. Is not the body dear 
to Me? Why judge you the ways of the flesh? 
All men seek Me. 

Anoint thy forehead in meekness. Address 
your soul unto Me. Take no thought. Leave 
the heart free to speak out of the wisdom that 
is Mine. Mine is the life and the way. 

I bless you. 

June 19, 1919. 

What have I to do with your wisdom or your 
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Understanding? What have I to do with the 
ways of the flesh? What have I to do with 
that which is bound or with that which melts 
not ? Have I any use for the forms that space 
has made, for the periods that time has set? 
Have I no power that overcomes all these 
things ? 

Rejoice, O mortal, for thou shalt put on im- 
mortality. As a garment that flows over you 
from the hand of God shall it encompass you. 
As a river that whitens the sands shall be the 
peace of thy soul. 

When I am in that which is not, then is that 
which is not even as I am. Can a man put 
something into nothing and be something? Or 
is something bound by that which has no life? 

If a man says, " This I am, and not other- 
wise can I be," then so is he. But if he says, 
" I know not what I am, but what I am, God 
knows," then so is he. For I have no iron that 
I fasten on the feet of my children, I have no 
spear that I hurl against them in their swift 
going. Go I not with them and can I injure 
Myself? 

If I desire that which is to you as a thing 
made and formed and placed in a world of 

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time, shall I not have it as Mine own? And 
having it as Mine own will it be other than I 
am ? Can I be one with that which perishes or 
control that which will not call Me master? 
If I am you, then are you Me ; and if you are 
Me, what are you? O My beloved, you shall 
know and great shall be your joy. 

If there is no end to My power, can there 
be any end to you when I am you, or any 
hinderance in the form which I love? Love 
I not that which obeys Me, perfect in all its 
parts, and devised to do My will in all things ? 
Shapes that change not are Mine, and 
shapes that change not are as vessels I fill and 
set aside and use again and bless ever. What 
is formed, have I not made it? What is 
mortal, is it not immortal? Is the earth only 
dust and the heart of a man a corruptible 
vessel? 

O My children, what I am, are you. How 
can it be otherwise, or the planning of many 
worlds fail of my purpose ? 

If I am you, you are Me, and what am I? 
Am I bound? Do I suffer? Am I ignorant? 
Am I unkind? Am I hard hearted and My 
ways evil? 
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Rejoice, the day of rest shall be yours. 

Gulfs of air are not between us. Spaces of 
light unite us. Light and motion weld us 
together. 

There is no friction at the beginning, which 
is as now. There is no weight where there is 
no space. There is no suction where there is 
no weight. Each law holds a further law. 
Each seed brings forth other seeds. 

When the might of God inhabits man, then 
is man as he was made from the beginning. 
When the song is sung, then are the words 
those that set in motion the constellations of 
the heavens. 

In each law is the expansion that overcomes. 
In each creation is hidden the new creation. 

Tribes of men have come and gone on the 
earth, but I have not gone, nor have I come, 
for I was here from the beginning. 

If there is much questioning there will be 
many answers. Question not. The truth 
comes without questioning ; it comes as the sun 
in darkness, as the water after a drought. 

Little have you to do, but see to it that ye 
do that well. Is it a big thing to give yourself 

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unto Him who made you, unto Him who will 
make you? Can you not trust His creation 
and the might of His word? 

A stubborn generation biteth the dust and 
raiseth not its head. A stubborn generation is 
My joy, for I will conquer it with My love. 
The lost sheep shall be found and brought into 
the fold. 

June 22, 1919. 

Give everything and then abide. Give 
everything and know the peace of God. Give 
everything and be at peace in the secret place 
in the heart. 

What is there to fear when I am with you? 
What need have you that I do not satisfy with 
My love? Why then are you troubled? Do 
I not love you ever ? 

You are perturbed because you fear. Why 
do you fear? Do you fear that I will leave 
you? You know that I am ever at your side. 
Then what fear you, seeing that I alone can 
satisfy you? 

O My children, rejoice ever, and in the day 
of darkness clap your hands in joy and shout 
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My name and call the light out of the darkness. 
How like a child that thinks to walk alone are 
the little ones I cherish. 

Peace and the joy of peace be upon you. 

Lest ye be disturbed, I will tell you that I 
can in no wise lessen the power that now is 
yours. Since ye have accepted Me, I can not 
withdraw Myself. Now am I deep in your 
vitals and your life flows from My mind. 

When you were of your own mind — now 
doubting, now believing — I did not govern 
you constantly. But now I govern you as you 
command Me to govern you. 

Be not confused. If I am in you, then are 
you in Me, and what I am, so are you, and 
what you ask, I do, and I do what you ask 
from My own initiative, for am I not the be- 
ginning of all things ? 

Then if I do what you ask from My own 
initiative, are not you asking what I desire and 
is not My desire sure of fulfilment? Can you 
not see that My wishes are instantly granted, 
for they are My wishes, and can I wish and 
deny Myself? 

Is there any distance that I can not over- 

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come, or any love that I will not satisfy? And 
if I love those whom you love, will I not also 
love all those whom your loved ones love, and 
so on to the renewing of the whole earth in My 
love? 

Command ever, at all moments. Suffer no 
disaffection to turn you aside. Let no bodily 
weakness usurp My strength. Think not that 
there is nothing to do. The outer must show 
forth the inner, and the inner is complete faith 
in My power. 

Your soul now breathes from My Spirit and 
My Spirit instructs your soul. No longer is 
it the prey of every wandering thought. Con- 
trolled, at peace, it rejoices in My will. 

Never doubt that I am the power that is in 
all things, and never hesitate to call forth My 
power. Use My power for your daily needs, 
in all little things, and out of these will come 
the will and the knowledge to command greater 
things. I am with you, in you, beside you, 
above you, below you; nothing that is but 
knows the power of My name. 

Rejoice and do My will. 

Expect no lessening of My power. I am 
thine and thou art Mine, and thy desires are 
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My desires and My desires and My Spirit in- 
struct thy soul. 
Rejoice. 

June 23, 1919. 

When there is no idea of separation any- 
where, in earth, or in earth toward heaven, or in 
heaven toward hell, then will the work be 
finished. 

Separation is the instrument of destruction. 
If God worketh through you to do His will, 
how is separation possible, for everything that 
is is the work of His hand, and can He be 
separated from Himself? 

What can there be that is not God? What 
can live but by His will? How then can any- 
thing be apart from anything else since all 
things are God? And if God has made all 
things, then is His mind in all things. And if 
His mind, which is in all things, is in you, then 
are you in all things, and you are not apart 
nor separated from anything. And if you 
are in all things, and you are conscious of 
yourself, then are you conscious of all things, 
and the ways of all things are known unto you, 

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for can God have made anything, large or 
small, the ways of which are not known unto 
Him? And if you are conscious of the ways 
of all things, will you not understand all 
things? And understanding all things, will 
you not govern all things in wisdom, giving 
unto each that which sufficeth for its needs? 

There is no wisdom apart from understand- 
ing, and there can be no understanding where 
there is separation. Separation will be over- 
come by the mind of God in you. 

Be no longer disturbed by the smallness of 
your personality. Your personality extends 
over the whole of creation. It is as high as the 
stars and is contained in a blade of grass. It 
barketh with the dogs at the moon which it is, 
and sails through the air on wings that lie 
hidden in the hand of God. 

Let no man tell you that these things are not 
true. This is The Truth and there is no other. 



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